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.
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-p224-6x5r-fjpm Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass
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Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass
Weaknesses CWE-23
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-26T17:29:04.053Z

Reserved: 2026-03-20T16:59:08.887Z

Link: CVE-2026-33494

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-26T18:16:30.400

Modified: 2026-03-26T18:16:30.400

Link: CVE-2026-33494

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