CVE-2026-34457

CRITICAL

OAuth2 Proxy: Health Check User-Agent Matching Bypasses Authentication in auth_request Mode

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy that provides authentication using OAuth2 providers. Versions prior to 7.15.2 contain a configuration-dependent authentication bypass in deployments where OAuth2 Proxy is used with an auth_request-style integration (such as nginx auth_request) and either --ping-user-agent is set or --gcp-healthchecks is enabled. In affected configurations, OAuth2 Proxy treats any request with the configured health check User-Agent value as a successful health check regardless of the requested path, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authentication and access protected upstream resources. Deployments that do not use auth_request-style subrequests or that do not enable --ping-user-agent/--gcp-healthchecks are not affected. This issue is fixed in 7.15.2.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.1
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 26.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-290
Status published
Products (4)
oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy 0Go
oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy 0 - 7.15.2Go
oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy < 7.15.2
oauth2_proxy_project/oauth2_proxy < 7.15.2
Published Apr 14, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 15, 2026