CVE-2026-33494 | ORY Oathkeeper is an Identity & Access Proxy (IAP) and Acces… | CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL

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.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2026-33494
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 2026-03-20 16:59 UTC
Published: 2026-03-26 17:23 UTC
Last updated: 2026-03-27 13:58 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-23
CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal
Vendor / Product: ory / oathkeeper
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

10.0 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

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

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
ory	oathkeeper	—	< 26.2.0

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-23	cna	CWE-23: Relative Path Traversal

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
10.0	CRITICAL	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

References (2)

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