# github.com/ory/oathkeeper (Go) vulnerabilities

4 known vulnerabilities (1 critical, 2 high, 1 medium), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: v0.40.9 (Jan 30, 2025): affected by 3 advisories
- Newest unaffected release: Every release is affected by at least one advisory
- Releases: 121 since v0.0.1 (Oct 10, 2017)
- Registry: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/ory/oathkeeper
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2026-33496: v0.0.1 to v0.40.9 (v1.0.0-beta.1 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-33495: v0.0.1 to v0.40.9 (v1.0.0-beta.1 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-33494: v0.0.1 to v0.40.9 (v1.0.0-beta.1 is outside it)
- CVE-2021-32701: v0.38.0-beta.2 to v0.38.11-beta.1 (v0.38.12-beta.1 is outside it)

## Advisories (4)

### [CVE-2026-33496](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-33496): Ory Oathkeeper has an authentication bypass by cache key confusion

- Severity: High 8.1
- Published: Mar 26, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 0.40.10-0.20260320084801-198a2bc82a99.
- No fix released. The advisory names 0.40.10-0.20260320084801-198a2bc82a99 as the fix, which the registry doesn't have yet. The latest release, v0.40.9, is still affected.

### [CVE-2026-33495](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-33495): Ory Oathkeeper has an authentication bypass by usage of untrusted header

- Severity: Medium 6.5
- Published: Mar 26, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 0.40.10-0.20260320084810-e9acca14a04d.
- No fix released. The advisory names 0.40.10-0.20260320084810-e9acca14a04d as the fix, which the registry doesn't have yet. The latest release, v0.40.9, is still affected.

### [CVE-2026-33494](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-33494): Ory Oathkeeper has a path traversal authorization bypass

- Severity: Critical 10.0
- Published: Mar 26, 2026
- Affected: fixed in 0.40.10-0.20260320084758-8e0002140491.
- No fix released. The advisory names 0.40.10-0.20260320084758-8e0002140491 as the fix, which the registry doesn't have yet. The latest release, v0.40.9, is still affected.

### [CVE-2021-32701](https://cve.now/CVE-2021-32701): Possible bypass of token claim validation when OAuth2 Introspection caching is enabled

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Jun 22, 2021
- Affected: from 0.38.0-beta.2, fixed in 0.38.12-beta.1.
- Fixed in v0.38.12-beta.1 (released Jun 22, 2021, the day of disclosure).
- The latest release, v0.40.9, is not affected.

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