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CVE-2026-42272 Detail

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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
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Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  GitHub, Inc.
CVSS-B 7.8 HIGH
Vector:  CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/commit/8b0de6aba23a047cfee3081df878271bb17f4351 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/pull/3207 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/releases/tag/v0.17.14 GitHub, Inc.
https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/security/advisories/GHSA-43jv-5j4x-qv67 GitHub, Inc.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity GitHub, Inc.  
CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict GitHub, Inc.  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-42272
NVD Published Date:
05/08/2026
NVD Last Modified:
05/08/2026
Source:
GitHub, Inc.