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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Advisories
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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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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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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-26T18:16:30.400
Modified: 2026-03-26T18:16:30.400
Link: CVE-2026-33494
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Weaknesses
Github GHSA