CVE-2026-33494

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.

CVSS v3 10.0 CRITICAL

10.0^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.8

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact NONE

Scope CHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper/commit/8e0002140491c592db41fa141dc6ad68f417e2b2
https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper/security/advisories/GHSA-p224-6x5r-fjpm

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-03-26 18:16

Updated : 2026-03-30 13:26

NVD link : CVE-2026-33494

Mitre link : CVE-2026-33494

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-33494

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-23

Relative Path Traversal

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