Obot before v0.23.0 Authentication Bypass via OAuth Dynamic Client Registration (obot-platform obot)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 27 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
- NVD status
- Deferred
Description
Obot before v0.23.0 (affected versions <= v0.22.1) running with OBOT_SERVER_ENABLE_AUTHENTICATION=true exposes OAuth dynamic client registration without authentication and without any restriction on the redirect URIs a client may register. Because the authorization flow auto-completes for an already logged-in user with no consent screen, an attacker who registers a client pointing at their own domain and induces a logged-in victim to visit a single crafted authorization URL receives an authorization code at the attacker-controlled redirect URI and can exchange it for an access token and refresh token. The token minted by the MCP OAuth flow carries the victim's full group set in the JWT, and Obot validated only the issuer and not the audience, so the token is accepted as a bearer token against any Obot API endpoint the victim can access rather than being scoped to the requested MCP server, allowing the attacker to read or modify the victim's resources until the token is revoked. v0.23.0 adds a consent screen, restricts MCP OAuth tokens to the MCP involved in the request, and enforces audience validation.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 4.0 | HIGH 8.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | VulnCheck |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | VulnCheck |
| CVSS 4.0 | HIGH 8.7 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X | NVD · disclosure@vulncheck.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · disclosure@vulncheck.com (Secondary) |
Advisories
- GHSA-xwmw-prc4-v3cr — Obot: OAuth Dynamic Client Registration Enables API Token Theft via Audience Confusion
- GO-2026-6530 — Obot: OAuth Dynamic Client Registration Enables API Token Theft via Audience Confusion in github.com/obot-platform/obot
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-88033
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-101062
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| obot-platform · obot | affected 0 < 0.23.0 ; unaffected 0.23.0 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |