Description
Heimdall is a cloud native Identity Aware Proxy and Access Control Decision service. Prior to version 0.17.14, Heimdall handles URL-encoded slashes (%2F) in a case-sensitive manner, while percent-encoding is defined to be case-insensitive. As a result, the lowercase equivalent (%2f) is not recognized and therefore not processed as expected when allow_encoded_slashes is set to off (the default setting). This discrepancy can lead to differences in how request paths are interpreted by heimdall and upstream components, which may result in authorization bypass. This issue has been patched in version 0.17.14.
Problem types
CWE-436: Interpretation Conflict
CWE-178: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
Product status
References
github.com/...imdall/security/advisories/GHSA-43jv-5j4x-qv67
github.com/dadrus/heimdall/pull/3207
github.com/...ommit/8b0de6aba23a047cfee3081df878271bb17f4351
github.com/dadrus/heimdall/releases/tag/v0.17.14