CVE-2026-34457CWE-290

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

Critical · published April 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
9.1
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.1 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00656 · 50.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Published
2026-04-14T22:14Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 APR 22:14Z
    OAuth2 Proxy: Health Check User-Agent Matching Bypasses Authentication in auth_request Mode
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