tl;dr Covert Redirect Vulnerability is a real, if not new, threat when combined with Implicit Grant Flow (not Code flow) This Covert Redirect Vulnerability in OAuth 2 is an interesting one. There’s a couple of defending arguments that this isn’t a flaw in OAuth itself. While I agree that it isn’t a flaw in the protocol, I think the threat is a real one, combined with a) a loose validation on redir