CVE-2026-41059
type: TechArticle
description: 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.
date published: 2026-04-22T00:16:27.957
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41059
publisher: AI Analytics
source organization: NIST National Vulnerability Database
main entity: Thing
  additional type: Vulnerability
  score: 8.2
  severity: HIGH
keywords: CWE-288

AI Analytics
type: Organization