Vulnerability · Published Aug 10, 2026 · Assigned by EEF
CVE-2026-64941Open redirect in Phoenix.LiveView.validate_local_url!/2 via ASCII tab, LF and CR
Low 2.1
In plain English
A low-severity open redirect in phoenix_live_view from phoenixframework. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| phoenixframework | phoenix_live_view | 0.5.0 – before 1.0.191.1.0-rc.0 – before 1.1.331.2.0-rc.0 – before 1.2.9 |
| phoenixframework | phoenix_live_view | b20dba3f65a380b2e4868dae03397f13d2daa070 – before * |
Weakness: CWE-601 · Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
References
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/security/advisories/GHSA-36m4-rm57-3prf vendor-advisory, related
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-64941.html related
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-64941 related
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/commit/0b8c733133466912f81adecaea72b6712370242e patch
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/commit/1c164f83df0bb922dfff9c60d125da5b0cfd6619 patch
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/commit/2068b304d71907064b159b6bc60c5ad85a876ecf patch