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.
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| 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. | |
| Title | Heimdall: Case-sensitive handling of URL-encoded slashes may lead to inconsistent path interpretation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-178 CWE-436 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-05-08T03:40:17.541Z
Updated: 2026-05-08T03:40:17.541Z
Reserved: 2026-04-26T11:53:27.707Z
Link: CVE-2026-42272
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-05-08T04:16:22.013
Modified: 2026-05-08T16:03:26.693
Link: CVE-2026-42272
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