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Heimdall is a cloud native Identity Aware Proxy and Access Control Decision service. Prior to version 0.17.14, Heimdall performs rule matching on the raw (non-normalized) request path, while downstream components may normalize dot-segments according to RFC 3986, Section 6.2.2.3. This discrepancy can result in heimdall authorizing a request for one path (e.g., /user/../admin, or URL-encoded variants such as /user/%2e%2e/admin or /user/%2e%2e%2fadmin. The latter would require the allow_encoded_slashes option to be set to on or no_decode.) while the downstream ultimately processes a different, normalized path (/admin). This issue has been patched in version 0.17.14.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-26 | Published 2026-05-08 | Updated 2026-05-08 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.8CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-35: Path Traversal: '.../...//'

CWE-436: Interpretation Conflict

Product status

< 0.17.14
affected

References

github.com/...imdall/security/advisories/GHSA-3q34-rx83-r6mq

github.com/dadrus/heimdall/pull/3209

github.com/...ommit/b5dfa484b7a8c2ce6d8691c026f9da867719947a

github.com/dadrus/heimdall/releases/tag/v0.17.14

cve.org (CVE-2026-42274)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-42274)

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