CVE-2026-33494

CRITICAL

Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 10.0
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 24.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-23
Status published
Products (2)
ory/oathkeeper < 26.2.0 (2 CPE variants)
ory/oathkeeper 0 - 0.40.10-0.20260320084758-8e0002140491Go
Published Mar 26, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 26, 2026