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Open redirect in Phoenix.LiveView.validate_local_url!/2 via ASCII tab, LF and CR

Published Aug 10, 2026

Description

URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability in phoenixframework phoenix_live_view allows an attacker to send a victim's browser to an origin of the attacker's choosing via a :to value containing ASCII tab, LF or CR.

redirect/2 validates :to through the private validate_local_url!/2 in lib/phoenix_live_view.ex, which is intended to guarantee the target is a path within the application. It rejects a leading // and any backslash, but not ASCII tab, LF or CR. Browsers strip those three characters before parsing a URL, so a value such as /<TAB>/example.com passes validation as a path and is then resolved as the scheme-relative URL //example.com. The live navigation functions share the guard but are not affected, because the client expands their target against the current origin. push_patch/2 is also affected before 0.7.0, which is when that expansion was added.

This issue affects phoenix_live_view: from 0.5.0 before 1.0.19, from 1.1.0-rc.0 before 1.1.33, and from 1.2.0-rc.0 before 1.2.9.

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Remediation

Vendor solution

Reject any untrusted value containing ASCII tab, LF or CR before passing it as :to to redirect/2, or to push_patch/2 before 0.7.0. Alternatively, map client-supplied navigation targets to a fixed set of known-good paths rather than forwarding the value.

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CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED
Assigner EEF
Published Aug 10, 2026
Updated Aug 10, 2026
Reserved Aug 9, 2026

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated Aug 10, 2026

NVD

Status Awaiting Analysis
Modified Aug 12, 2026

Red Hat

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ENISA EUVD

Assigner EEF
Published Aug 10, 2026
Updated Aug 10, 2026

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