Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-41059
OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy that provides authentication using OAuth2 providers. Versions 7.5.0 through 7.15.1 have a configuration-dependent authentication bypass. Deployments are affected when all of the following are true: Use of `skip_auth_routes` or the legacy `skip_auth_regex`; use of patterns that can be widened by attacker-controlled suffixes, such as `^/foo/.*/bar$` causing potential exposure of `/foo/secret`; and protected upstream applications that interpret `#` as a fragment delimiter or otherwise route the request to the protected base path. In deployments that rely on these settings, an unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted request containing a number sign in the path, including the browser-safe encoded form `%23`, so that OAuth2 Proxy matches a public allowlist rule while the backend serves a protected resource. Deployments that do not use these skip-auth options, or that only allow exact public paths with tightly scoped method and path rules, are not affected. A fix has been implemented in version 7.15.2 to normalize request paths more conservatively before skip-auth matching so fragment content does not influence allowlist decisions. Users who cannot upgrade immediately can reduce exposure by tightening or removing `skip_auth_routes` and `skip_auth_regex` rules, especially patterns that use broad wildcards across path segments. Recommended mitigations include replacing broad rules with exact, anchored public paths and explicit HTTP methods; rejecting requests whose path contains `%23` or `#` at the ingress, load balancer, or WAF level; and/or avoiding placing sensitive application paths behind broad `skip_auth_routes` rules.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 36.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.2
Products affected by CVE-2026-41059
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.11.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.12.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.13.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.14.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.14.1
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.14.2
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.14.3
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.15.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.15.1
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:oauth2_proxy_project:oauth2_proxy:7.9.0