fix(transport): refuse cross-origin redirects in default HTTP clients (GO-2026-6911)

client/transport/oauth.go

@@ -72,7 +72,10 @@ type OAuthConfig struct {
 	// a mismatched issuer.
 	SkipIssuerMetadataValidation bool
 	// HTTPClient is an optional HTTP client to use for requests.
-	// If nil, a default HTTP client with a 30 second timeout will be used.
+	// If nil, a default HTTP client with a 30 second timeout is used. It
+	// follows token, refresh and registration requests only to the same
+	// scheme, host and port, and never redirects metadata discovery from
+	// https to http.
 	HTTPClient *http.Client
 }
 
@@ -296,7 +299,7 @@ func NewOAuthHandler(config OAuthConfig) *OAuthHandler {
 		config.TokenStore = NewMemoryTokenStore()
 	}
 	if config.HTTPClient == nil {
-		config.HTTPClient = &http.Client{Timeout: 30 * time.Second}
+		config.HTTPClient = &http.Client{Timeout: 30 * time.Second, CheckRedirect: oauthRedirectPolicy}
 	}
 
 	return &OAuthHandler{

client/transport/redirect.go

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+package transport
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// ErrCrossOriginRedirect is returned when a server redirects a request to a
+// different origin (scheme, host or port) and the redirect policy does not
+// allow it. The redirected request would otherwise carry the configured
+// headers, the OAuth bearer token and, for 307 and 308, the request body to a
+// destination the server chose.
+var ErrCrossOriginRedirect = errors.New("refusing cross-origin redirect")
+
+// ErrInsecureRedirect is returned when a server redirects an https request to
+// a plain http URL.
+var ErrInsecureRedirect = errors.New("refusing redirect from https to http")
+
+// ErrTooManyRedirects is returned when a redirect chain reaches maxRedirects.
+var ErrTooManyRedirects = errors.New("too many redirects")
+
+// maxRedirects matches the limit net/http applies when CheckRedirect is nil.
+const maxRedirects = 10
+
+// newDefaultHTTPClient returns the HTTP client a transport uses when the
+// caller does not supply one. It only follows same-origin redirects.
+func newDefaultHTTPClient() *http.Client {
+	return &http.Client{CheckRedirect: sameOriginRedirectPolicy}
+}
+
+// sameOriginRedirectPolicy is an http.Client CheckRedirect function that
+// follows a redirect only when the new URL has the origin of the request that
+// started the chain, and at most maxRedirects times.
+func sameOriginRedirectPolicy(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
+	if len(via) >= maxRedirects {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: stopped after %d redirects", ErrTooManyRedirects, maxRedirects)
+	}
+	if len(via) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	from := via[0].URL
+	if !sameOrigin(from, req.URL) {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s://%s to %s://%s",
+			ErrCrossOriginRedirect, from.Scheme, from.Host, req.URL.Scheme, req.URL.Host)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// oauthRedirectPolicy is the CheckRedirect function of the OAuth handler's
+// default client. Requests that carry credentials (token, refresh and client
+// registration requests, which are not GET or HEAD) follow only same-origin
+// redirects. Metadata discovery requests, which carry no credentials, may be
+// redirected to another origin but never from https to http.
+func oauthRedirectPolicy(req *http.Request, via []*http.Request) error {
+	if len(via) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	first := via[0]
+	if first.Method != http.MethodGet && first.Method != http.MethodHead {
+		return sameOriginRedirectPolicy(req, via)
+	}
+	if len(via) >= maxRedirects {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: stopped after %d redirects", ErrTooManyRedirects, maxRedirects)
+	}
+	prev := via[len(via)-1].URL
+	if asciiLower(prev.Scheme) == "https" && asciiLower(req.URL.Scheme) != "https" {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s to %s", ErrInsecureRedirect, prev.Redacted(), req.URL.Redacted())
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// sameOrigin reports whether a and b have the same scheme, host and port.
+func sameOrigin(a, b *url.URL) bool {
+	return origin(a) == origin(b)
+}
+
+// origin returns a normalized scheme://host:port string. The scheme and host
+// are lowercased (ASCII only), a missing port becomes the scheme's default,
+// and a numeric port loses leading zeros, so ":0443" and ":443" compare equal
+// as net/http dials them.
+func origin(u *url.URL) string {
+	scheme := asciiLower(u.Scheme)
+	port := u.Port()
+	if n, err := strconv.ParseUint(port, 10, 16); err == nil {
+		port = strconv.FormatUint(n, 10)
+	}
+	if port == "" {
+		port = defaultPort(scheme)
+	}
+	return scheme + "://[" + asciiLower(u.Hostname()) + "]:" + port
+}
+
+// asciiLower lowercases only ASCII letters. Unicode case mapping must not be
+// used on hosts: strings.ToLower maps "İ" to "i" and strings.EqualFold matches
+// "K" (Kelvin sign) with "k", while net/http dials those as different hosts.
+func asciiLower(s string) string {
+	return strings.Map(func(r rune) rune {
+		if 'A' <= r && r <= 'Z' {
+			return r + ('a' - 'A')
+		}
+		return r
+	}, s)
+}
+
+func defaultPort(scheme string) string {
+	switch scheme {
+	case "http":
+		return "80"
+	case "https":
+		return "443"
+	}
+	return ""
+}