# CVE-2026-42273: Heimdall: Case-sensitive host matching may lead to policy bypass

- Also known as: GO-2026-5200, GHSA-72H4-MXFC-JX37
- 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=partial
- 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 performs host matching in a case-sensitive manner, while HTTP hostnames are case-insensitive. This discrepancy can result in heimdall failing to match a rule for a request host that differs only in letter casing, potentially causing the request to be classified differently than intended. 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-72h4-mxfc-jx37
- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/pull/3208
- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/commit/3d05e56a9e7ef0355f17482b4322054af4e85943
- https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/releases/tag/v0.17.14

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