oras-go blob upload vulnerable to credential forwarding via unvalidated Location header

Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-50151

oras-go is a Go library for managing OCI artifacts. Prior to 2.6.1, registry/remote/repository.go in blobStore.completePushAfterInitialPost follows a registry-controlled Location header during monolithic blob upload and reuses the Authorization header from the initial POST request for the subsequent PUT request, allowing a malicious registry to return a cross-host Location and receive the caller's credentials at an attacker-controlled endpoint. This issue is fixed in version 2.6.1.

Open Source Vulnerabilities GO-2026-5882

Oras-go: Blob upload vulnerable to credential forwarding via unvalidated Location header in oras.land/oras-go

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-jxpm-75mh-9fp7

## Summary oras-go follows a registry-controlled `Location` header during the monolithic blob upload flow and reuses the `Authorization` header from the initial `POST` request for the subsequent `PUT` request. If a malicious registry returns a cross-host `Location`, oras-go can send the caller's credentials to an attacker-controlled endpoint. ## Affected Versions tested: v2.6.0 (commit 03243809936cce826494b5506f724c6dc11115b1, as-of 2026-01-24) range: unknown; likely affects earlier v2.x releases that include the same upload flow ## Impact Credential leak to an attacker-controlled endpoint and client-side ssrf to a cross-host target. ## Affected Component - `registry/remote/repository.go:878-916` (`blobStore.completePushAfterInitialPost`) ## Reproduction Attachments include `poc.zip` with a local-only harness (no real registry required). It runs a fake registry server that returns a cross-host `Location` and a second server that records whether it received `Authorization`. ```bash unzip -q -o poc.zip -d /tmp/poc cd /tmp/poc/poc-F-ORAS-LOCATION-UPLOAD-001 make canonical make control ``` ## Recommended Fix - validate `Location` before uploading (scheme + hostname + effective port) against the original request, or require an explicit opt-in allowlist for cross-host upload urls - never forward `Authorization` when the upload target changes host or scheme ## references - security policy: https://github.com/oras-project/oras-go/security/policy - vulnerable code: `registry/remote/repository.go` (see `blobStore.completePushAfterInitialPost`)