Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass_CVE-2026-33494

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CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

ORY Oathkeeper is an Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) and Access Control Decision API that authorizes HTTP requests based on sets of Access Rules. Versions prior to 26.2.0 are vulnerable to an authorization bypass via HTTP path traversal. An attacker can craft a URL containing path traversal sequences (e.g. `/public/../admin/secrets`) that resolves to a protected path after normalization, but is matched against a permissive rule because the raw, un-normalized path is used during rule evaluation. Version 26.2.0 contains a patch.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-33494

Source GitHub_M

Published Mar 26, 2026 at 17:23

Modified Mar 27, 2026 at 13:58

Affected Product

Vendor ory

Product oathkeeper

Version < 26.2.0

Affected Versions ory oathkeeper < 26.2.0

CWE Classification

CWE-23

References

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