# CVE-2026-42272: Heimdall: Case-sensitive handling of URL-encoded slashes may lead to inconsistent path interpretation

- Also known as: GO-2026-5108, GHSA-43JV-5J4X-QV67
- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.17.14
- Published: 2026-05-08 · Updated: 2026-05-08

## Affected

- dadrus heimdall: fixed in 0.17.14
- github.com/dadrus/heimdall (Go): fixed in 0.17.14

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on dadrus heimdall, github.com/dadrus/heimdall, upgrade to a fixed version (0.17.14) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/security/advisories/GHSA-43jv-5j4x-qv67
- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/pull/3207
- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/commit/8b0de6aba23a047cfee3081df878271bb17f4351
- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/releases/tag/v0.17.14

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