CVE-2026-59655 in CloudStack
Summary
by MITRE • 08/21/2026
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor vulnerability in Apache CloudStack's OAuth authentication plugin while listing OAuth providers.
This issue affects Apache CloudStack: from 4.19.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 08/22/2026
The vulnerability identified in Apache CloudStack represents a critical information disclosure flaw within its OAuth authentication plugin infrastructure. Specifically, this security defect manifests when an administrator or authorized user attempts to list available OAuth providers configured for identity federation. The core technical failure lies in the API endpoint responsible for retrieving provider configurations, which inadvertently returns sensitive internal details that should remain obscured from general viewable lists. This exposure typically includes configuration parameters such as client secrets, callback URLs with embedded tokens, or other metadata essential for establishing secure trust relationships between CloudStack and external identity providers like Google, GitHub, or Okta. By exposing these elements during a standard listing operation, the system fails to enforce proper data sanitization before transmission to the client side, thereby violating fundamental principles of least privilege and sensitive data handling in enterprise management consoles.
From an operational perspective, this vulnerability allows unauthorized actors who have gained access to the CloudStack UI or API with sufficient permissions to view provider lists to extract critical authentication credentials. In a typical deployment, OAuth providers are used to delegate user authentication to external services, meaning that compromising these configurations can lead to account takeover attacks if client secrets are leaked. Attackers could potentially use this information to impersonate legitimate users by forging valid OAuth tokens or redirecting authorization flows through malicious endpoints defined in the exposed callback URLs. This undermines the integrity of single sign-on implementations and exposes the organization’s identity management ecosystem to exploitation, particularly in environments where CloudStack manages sensitive cloud resources across multiple tenants or departments with varying levels of trust.
The classification of this issue aligns directly with CWE-200, which defines Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor as a category of vulnerabilities where software does not protect user data adequately against unauthorized access. Furthermore, in the context of the MITRE ATT&CK framework, this vulnerability facilitates reconnaissance and credential acquisition phases of an attack chain. It enables adversaries to gather intelligence on authentication mechanisms without needing elevated privileges beyond basic list-viewing rights, effectively lowering the barrier for subsequent exploitation attempts such as session hijacking or privilege escalation through compromised identity tokens. The lack of strict output encoding and validation in the response payload is a common pattern in web application frameworks when handling complex configuration objects that contain both public identifiers and private secrets.
To mitigate this risk, organizations running affected versions of Apache CloudStack must prioritize immediate patching by upgrading to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 and later releases where the issue has been resolved. The fix involves modifying the backend logic to filter out sensitive fields such as client secrets before serializing provider data for API responses, ensuring that only non-sensitive identifiers like provider names and public keys are exposed during listing operations. Additionally, administrators should review their current OAuth configurations to ensure no overly permissive scopes or insecure redirect URIs were previously configured based on assumptions of confidentiality. Regular audits of authentication plugins and strict adherence to security best practices regarding secret management will further reduce the attack surface associated with identity federation components in cloud infrastructure platforms.