Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in social-auth-core (CVE-2026-57177)
Summary
Vulnerability in social-auth-core (CVE-2026-57177). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Exploitable via SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS. Mitigation: upgrade to 5.0.0 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Impact
The LoginRadius backend did not validate OAuth state during the authentication flow.
Applications using this backend were vulnerable to login CSRF. An attacker could cause a victim's browser session to complete authentication using an attacker-controlled LoginRadius token, making the victim authenticated as the attacker's LoginRadius identity.
The issue affects only applications using the LoginRadius backend.
Patches
The issue has been fixed by enabling callback state validation for the LoginRadius backend.
Users should upgrade to a patched version.
Fix:
Workarounds
Applications that cannot upgrade immediately should disable the LoginRadius backend by removing it from SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS.
There is no complete workaround while continuing to use the vulnerable backend.
Credits
Reported through GitHub private vulnerability reporting by Liyi Zhou, Ziyue Wang, Strick, Maurice, and Chenchen Yu from the University of Sydney security research team.
Reporter references:
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-57177 has been found in social-auth-core.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 4.3/10.
What to do: upgrade social-auth-core to 5.0.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "social-auth-core CVE-2026-57177" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-57177 (social-auth-core) — CWE-352 / CVSS v3 4.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Attack surface: SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
Patched: 5.0.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
CSRF (CWE-352) exists in social-auth-core. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS without authentication.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of social-auth-core. Attack surface: SOCIAL_AUTH_AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 4.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 5.0.0.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'social-auth-core' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'social-auth-core' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
social-auth-coreを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade social-auth-core to 5.0.0ステージング環境で 5.0.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-57177 social-auth-core
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-57177 python2.7
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- package github.com
- package pypi.org
- web github.com
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