CVE-2026-33494CWE-23

Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass

Critical · published March 26, 2026

CVSS v3.1
10.0
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
10.0 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00641 · 50.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-23 · Relative Path Traversal
Published
2026-03-26T17:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 MAR 17:23Z
    Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass
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