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CVE-2026-33494

34
FAUCET Score

CVE-2026-33494 is a critical authorization bypass vulnerability affecting ORY Oathkeeper versions prior to 26.2.0, allowing an attacker to craft HTTP path traversal sequences to access protected resources. Rated 10.0 CVSS, this flaw enables an unauthenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality and integrity impact with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code available, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion due to its severe nature.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 26.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ory:oathkeeper:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

10.0CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
41.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0052 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/ory/oathkeeperFixed in: 0.40.10-0.20260320084758-8e0002140491

Vendor Advisories (1)

goGHSA-p224-6x5r-fjpmcritical

Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass

Mar 20, 2026

References

github.com / ory/oathkeeper/commit/8e0002140491c592db41fa141dc6ad68f417e2b2
Patch
github.com / ory/oathkeeper/security/advisories/GHSA-p224-6x5r-fjpm
MitigationVendor Advisory