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EEF-CVE-2026-66883

Oidcc.Plug.Authorize user agent session binding inert due to case-sensitive header lookup

Quick fix

EEF-CVE-2026-66883 — oidcc_plug: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

mix deps.update oidcc_plug

Details

## Summary

Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability in Erlang Ecosystem Foundation oidcc_plug (`Oidcc.Plug.Authorize` module) renders the user agent session binding inert, removing a defense in depth control against replay of a stolen session.

This vulnerability is associated with program files `lib/oidcc/plug/authorize.ex` and `lib/oidcc/plug/authorization_callback.ex`, and program routines `Oidcc.Plug.Authorize.call/2` and `Oidcc.Plug.AuthorizationCallback.call/2`.

`Oidcc.Plug.Authorize.call/2` reads the initiating client's user agent with `get_req_header(conn, "User-Agent")`. Plug lowercases incoming header names, but `get_req_header/2` matches the supplied key exactly and performs no normalization of its own, so the mixed-case lookup always returns an empty list and `nil` is written into the session. On the callback side, `Oidcc.Plug.AuthorizationCallback` treats a stored `nil` user agent as nothing to compare and returns `:ok` without inspecting the request. The two behaviours combine so that the check passes unconditionally on every request, including for deployments that explicitly opted in with `check_useragent: true`, and an authorization callback can be completed from a different user agent than the one that initiated the flow without detection. The check fails open silently, with no error and no log entry, so a deployment cannot tell the binding is absent.

The impact is limited to defense in depth. The inert check does not by itself allow an attacker to complete an authorization flow; it removes one layer that would otherwise hinder use of a stolen or leaked session, such as an exfiltrated session cookie replayed from a different client. The CSRF/state, nonce, and PKCE checks are unaffected and continue to function. Deployments that never enabled `check_useragent` are not affected in practice, since they never expected the binding. The corresponding lookup in `Oidcc.Plug.AuthorizationCallback` correctly uses the lowercase key and is not affected.

This issue affects oidcc_plug: from 0.1.0-alpha.3 before 0.5.0.

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Affected packages

Hex/oidcc_plug
Introduced in: 0.1.0-alpha.3Fixed in: 0.5.0
Fixmix deps.update oidcc_plug

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