Advisory severityHigh8.5Red Hat Linux

High [CVE-2026-49332] underscore header smuggling enables identity impersonation on WSGI/PHP upstreams

This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-49332 affecting Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.

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CVE-2026-49332 Source published Jul 28, 2026Source updated Jul 28, 2026

VulniPulse record published Jul 28, 2026Record updated Aug 18, 2026

CVE-2026-49332

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

A flaw was found in openshift/oauth-proxy. The proxy sets authenticated identity headers using only dash-variant keys (X-Forwarded-User) but does not strip underscore-variant keys (X_Forwarded_User) from incoming requests.

WSGI and PHP frameworks normalize both variants to the same variable, allowing an authenticated low-privilege user to smuggle a forged identity that may override the legitimate authenticated identity in the upstream application. Red Hat severity: Important — CVSS 8.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N).

Weakness: CWE-436.

Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22.

Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2026:54206, RHSA-2026:54188, RHSA-2026:50681, RHSA-2026:56912, RHSA-2026:50758, RHSA-2026:51013, RHSA-2026:51007, RHSA-2026:51022, RHSA-2026:51025, RHSA-2026:51038.

Affected versions

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Fixed versions

openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy:1786458704
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy:1786477436
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy:1785549818
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy-rhel9:1787054100
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy-rhel9:1785544039
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy-rhel9:1785529735
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy-rhel9:1785521728
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy-rhel9:1785833742
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy-rhel9:1785851359
openshift4/ose-oauth-proxy-rhel9:1785885351
RHSA-2026:54206
RHSA-2026:54188
RHSA-2026:50681
RHSA-2026:56912
RHSA-2026:50758
RHSA-2026:51013
RHSA-2026:51007
RHSA-2026:51022
RHSA-2026:51025
RHSA-2026:51038

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 12 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation

Upstream application hardening: validate X-Forwarded-User against the expected session identity. Reject requests where identity headers do not match the authenticated session.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 12 days ago·verify at source

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CVE-2026-49332NVD CVE.org MITRE

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