Feathersjs up to 5.0.41 OAuth Service improper authentication

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Feathersjs up to 5.0.41. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component OAuth Service. Performing a manipulation results in improper authentication. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-29792. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Feathersjs up to 5.0.41. This affects some unknown processing of the component OAuth Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Feathersjs is a framework for creating web APIs and real-time applications with TypeScript or JavaScript. From 5.0.0 to before 5.0.42, an unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted GET request directly to /oauth/:provider/callback with a forged profile in the query string. The OAuth service's authentication payload has a fallback chain that reaches params.query (the raw request query) when Grant's session/state responses are empty. Since the attacker never initiated an OAuth authorize flow, Grant has no session to work with and produces no response, so the fallback fires. The forged profile then drives entity lookup and JWT minting. The attacker gets a valid access token for an existing user without ever contacting the OAuth provider. This vulnerability is fixed in 5.0.42.

The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-29792 since 03/04/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 5.0.42 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Feathersjs

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• 5.0.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.0.3
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• 5.0.35
• 5.0.36
• 5.0.37
• 5.0.38
• 5.0.39
• 5.0.40
• 5.0.41

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