diff --git a/src/app.ts b/src/app.ts
index 09d8266..670320a 100644
--- a/src/app.ts
+++ b/src/app.ts
@@ -1332,8 +1332,9 @@ export async function buildApp(options: BuildAppOptions = {}): Promise<FastifyIn
         // This path catches store and provider failures: a Postgres or
         // resolver error names a constraint, the host or the database, and
         // JSON.parse quotes the provider's response body. The audit event
-        // keeps the error's class and code.
+        // keeps the error's class, its code, and a provider's HTTP status.
         const code = (error as { code?: unknown }).code;
+        const status = (error as { status?: unknown }).status;
         const errorClass = error instanceof Error && /^[A-Za-z]{1,64}$/.test(error.name) ? error.name : "Error";
         const failure = "The provider callback could not be completed.";
         const nowIso = new Date().toISOString();
@@ -1346,6 +1347,7 @@ export async function buildApp(options: BuildAppOptions = {}): Promise<FastifyIn
             mode: statePayload.mode,
             errorClass,
             errorCode: typeof code === "string" && /^[A-Za-z0-9_]{1,64}$/.test(code) ? code : null,
+            providerStatus: typeof status === "number" && Number.isInteger(status) && status >= 100 && status <= 599 ? status : null,
           },
           createdAt: nowIso,
         });
diff --git a/src/oauth.ts b/src/oauth.ts
index 564b7b8..0d3872c 100644
--- a/src/oauth.ts
+++ b/src/oauth.ts
@@ -59,8 +59,19 @@ export interface OAuthProviderRuntime {
   }): Promise<EntitlementEvaluation>;
 }
 
-function buildErrorMessage(status: number, body: string, fallback: string): string {
-  return `${fallback} (status ${status}): ${body || "empty response"}`;
+/**
+ * A provider answered with a non-2xx status. It carries the status and never
+ * the response body: a provider's body can quote the request, and whatever
+ * catches this may record or print it.
+ */
+export class ProviderHttpError extends Error {
+  readonly status: number;
+
+  constructor(status: number, failure: string) {
+    super(`${failure} (status ${status}).`);
+    this.name = "ProviderHttpError";
+    this.status = status;
+  }
 }
 
 async function fetchJson<T>(input: string | URL, init: RequestInit, fallbackError: string): Promise<T> {
@@ -68,7 +79,7 @@ async function fetchJson<T>(input: string | URL, init: RequestInit, fallbackErro
   const text = await response.text();
 
   if (!response.ok) {
-    throw new Error(buildErrorMessage(response.status, text, fallbackError));
+    throw new ProviderHttpError(response.status, fallbackError);
   }
 
   return (text ? JSON.parse(text) : {}) as T;
@@ -926,10 +937,10 @@ async function evaluateDiscordEntitlements(options: {
     };
   }
 
-  const text = await response.text();
   if (!response.ok) {
-    throw new Error(buildErrorMessage(response.status, text, "Discord guild member lookup failed"));
+    throw new ProviderHttpError(response.status, "Discord guild member lookup failed");
   }
+  const text = await response.text();
 
   const member = (text ? JSON.parse(text) : {}) as {
     nick?: string;
diff --git a/tests/app.test.ts b/tests/app.test.ts
index 3840756..a529150 100644
--- a/tests/app.test.ts
+++ b/tests/app.test.ts
@@ -1511,7 +1511,64 @@ describe("the failed-callback audit event", () => {
       mode: "sign_in",
       errorClass: "Error",
       errorCode: "ENOTFOUND",
+      providerStatus: null,
     });
     expect(JSON.stringify(events)).not.toContain("CANARY");
   });
 });
+
+describe("the failed-callback audit event for a provider's HTTP refusal", () => {
+  async function auditAfterTokenExchangeAnswers(response: () => Response) {
+    globalThis.fetch = async () => response();
+    const store = new InMemoryStore();
+    const app = await buildApp({ config: createTestConfig(), store, oauthRuntimes: createOAuthRuntimeRegistry() });
+    apps.push(app);
+    const stateToken = await startDiscordSignIn(app);
+    const callback = await app.inject({
+      method: "GET",
+      url: `/v1/oauth/discord/callback?code=test-code&state=${encodeURIComponent(stateToken)}`,
+    });
+    expect(callback.statusCode).toBe(502);
+    const events = [...(store as unknown as { auditEvents: Map<string, { eventType: string; eventPayloadJson: unknown }> }).auditEvents.values()];
+    return events.filter((event) => event.eventType === "oauth_callback_failed");
+  }
+
+  it("keeps the provider's status as a number and never its body", async () => {
+    const failed = await auditAfterTokenExchangeAnswers(
+      () => new Response('{"error":"invalid_grant","echo":"CANARYbody"}', { status: 401 })
+    );
+
+    expect(failed).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(failed[0]!.eventPayloadJson).toEqual({
+      provider: "discord",
+      mode: "sign_in",
+      errorClass: "ProviderHttpError",
+      errorCode: null,
+      providerStatus: 401,
+    });
+    expect(JSON.stringify(failed)).not.toContain("CANARY");
+  });
+
+  it("keeps no status that is not an HTTP status", async () => {
+    const store = new InMemoryStore();
+    const app = await buildApp({
+      config: createTestConfig(),
+      store,
+      oauthRuntimes: {
+        discord: {
+          ...createMockDiscordRuntime(),
+          async exchangeAuthorizationCode() {
+            throw Object.assign(new Error("refused"), { status: 9999 });
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    });
+    apps.push(app);
+    const stateToken = await startDiscordSignIn(app);
+    await app.inject({ method: "GET", url: `/v1/oauth/discord/callback?code=test-code&state=${encodeURIComponent(stateToken)}` });
+
+    const events = [...(store as unknown as { auditEvents: Map<string, { eventType: string; eventPayloadJson: Record<string, unknown> }> }).auditEvents.values()];
+    const failed = events.find((event) => event.eventType === "oauth_callback_failed");
+    expect(failed?.eventPayloadJson.providerStatus).toBeNull();
+  });
+});