CVE-2026-34457 PUBLISHED

OAuth2 Proxy: Health Check User-Agent Matching Bypasses Authentication in auth_request Mode

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 27.03.2026 Published: 14.04.2026 Updated: 14.04.2026

OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy that provides authentication using OAuth2 providers. Versions prior to 7.15.2 contain a configuration-dependent authentication bypass in deployments where OAuth2 Proxy is used with an auth_request-style integration (such as nginx auth_request) and either --ping-user-agent is set or --gcp-healthchecks is enabled. In affected configurations, OAuth2 Proxy treats any request with the configured health check User-Agent value as a successful health check regardless of the requested path, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authentication and access protected upstream resources. Deployments that do not use auth_request-style subrequests or that do not enable --ping-user-agent/--gcp-healthchecks are not affected. This issue is fixed in 7.15.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor oauth2-proxy
Product oauth2-proxy
Versions
  • Version < 7.15.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing CWE