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CVE-2026-33494

ory oathkeeper — Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass

EPSS 0.5%CVSS 10.0
critical.is priorityof 100
39
CVSS 10.0 (CNA)10.0 / 10 × 3030.0Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 44.7.447 × 208.9No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
oathkeeper< 26.2.0–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/ory/oathkeeper/security/advisories/GHSA-p224-6x5r-fjpmrefgithub.com/ory/oathkeeper/commit/8e0002140491c592db41fa141dc6ad68f417e2b2