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Summary:

Salesforce Connect OAuth fails with “valid challenge or state” error

Details:

Hi Pipedream team,

We are reporting a customer-blocking issue with the Salesforce OAuth connection flow through Pipedream Connect for Town (workspace: town). Connection attempts fail with:

“There was a problem with the oauth flow. Please try again with a valid challenge or state.”

The failures are intermittent and prevent customers from connecting Salesforce, blocking onboarding and team rollout. The exact root cause remains unconfirmed. Please investigate the Salesforce OAuth handshake, including challenge/state handling, and advise on a reliable workaround. We can provide diagnostic timestamps and other non-secret identifiers privately through support if needed.

This is a resubmission through the integration-report form to obtain a trackable issue number. Please associate it with our earlier support request titled “High Salesforce Connect failure rate — ‘valid challenge or state’ OAuth error”, acknowledged on September 17, 2026 at 16:32 UTC, and the subsequent escalation titled “Escalation request: Salesforce OAuth failures and Brex scope blocker — Town Connect”. Please consolidate any duplicate internal cases.

The Brex issue mentioned in that escalation is separately tracked at https://github.com/PipedreamHQ/pipedream/issues/22009 and has a different symptom; this report is specifically for Salesforce.

Please confirm an engineering owner, priority, available mitigation, and the next update time or estimated resolution.

Thanks, George Town

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