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CVE-2025-64484

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2025-64484 affects OAuth2-Proxy versions prior to 7.13.0, specifically when deployed with upstream applications that normalize underscores to dashes in HTTP headers (e.g., Django, Flask). Authenticated users can bypass proxy filtering by injecting underscore variants of X-Forwarded-* headers, potentially leading to privilege escalation within the upstream application. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Oauth2-ProxyOauth2-Proxy
< 7.13.0CNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
4.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 38th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/v7Fixed in: 7.13.0
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage 8Fixed in: rhceph/oauth2-proxy-rhel9

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-vjrc-mh2v-45x6high

OAuth2-Proxy is vulnerable to header smuggling via underscore leading to potential privilege escalation

Nov 12, 2025
redhatCVE-2025-64484Important

oauth2-proxy: OAuth2-Proxy vulnerable to header smuggling via underscore, leading to potential privilege escalation

Nov 10, 2025

References

datatracker.ietf.org / doc/html/rfc2616
datatracker.ietf.org / doc/html/rfc822
github.com / oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy/security/advisories/GHSA-vjrc-mh2v-45x6
github.security.telekom.com / 2020/05/smuggling-http-headers-through-reverse-proxies.html
uptimia.com / questions/why-are-http-headers-with-underscores-dropped-by-nginx