CVE-2026-33494

critical · 10

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

0.5%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

43rd

EPSS percentile

2026-03-26

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CWE-23

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
ory	oathkeeper	< 26.2.0

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References

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

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-33494