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GHSA-fm3f-ch8h-qw8q

@hono/oauth-providers: OAuth state check fails open on omitted state, enabling login CSRF and forced account linking

Quick fix

GHSA-fm3f-ch8h-qw8q — @hono/oauth-providers: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install @hono/oauth-providers@0.8.6

Details

### Summary

The built-in social login providers accept an OAuth callback even when the `state` value is absent on both sides, so the anti-CSRF check passes for a callback that never came from a genuine login attempt. This defeats the `state`-based CSRF protection under default usage.

### Details

The `state` check treated two absent values as a match, so a callback that omits `state` — and for which no `state` was ever stored — was allowed to redeem the authorization code. Hono's `csrf()` middleware does not help: it only inspects form-style requests, while the OAuth callback is a top-level `GET` navigation it treats as safe.

This affects the `google`, `github`, `facebook`, `discord`, `twitch`, `linkedin`, and `msentra` providers. The `x` (Twitter) provider is not exploitable due to its PKCE binding.

### Impact

An attacker can make a victim's browser complete an OAuth callback that binds the attacker's identity instead of the victim's, leading to login CSRF (the victim silently acts inside the attacker's account) or forced account linking (the attacker's identity is linked to the victim's account, enabling later sign-in as the victim). Affects applications using an affected provider on `@hono/oauth-providers` `0.8.5` or earlier.

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Affected packages

npm/@hono/oauth-providers
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.8.6
Fixnpm install @hono/oauth-providers@0.8.6

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