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open_redirect

CWE-601

Open Redirect — a PullGuard finding type. Findings of this type appear in the PR comment, Step Summary, SARIF (GitHub Security tab / IDE viewers), and the HTML report, each with severity, location, and the remediation guidance below.

How to fix

Validate redirect target against an allowlist low effort

// WRONG
res.redirect(req.query.next);

// RIGHT — relative-path-only allowlist
const next = req.query.next;
if (typeof next !== "string" || !/^\/[^\/\\]/.test(next)) {
  return res.status(400).send("invalid redirect");
}
res.redirect(next);

Triage

Suppress a confirmed non-issue with a committed .pullguardignore entry (pullguard ignore locally, or comment /pullguard ignore <fingerprint> <reason> on the PR — the fingerprint is printed in the PR comment’s Triage section). Entries support expiresAt for time-boxed snoozes.

Security findings at major or critical severity — and any critical finding — always surface: .pullguardignore cannot hide them. The reviewed paths that keep them visible are acknowledged (reviewed, stays in reports) and, for a confirmed false positive, a reasoned false_positive entry — visible and audited, excluded only from the merge block.