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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-42273 EUVD-2026-28509GHSA-72h4-mxfc-jx37GO-2026-5200

Heimdall: Case-sensitive host matching may lead to policy bypass

Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
dadrus heimdall < 0.17.14 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/dadrus/heimdall < 0.17.14 0.17.14 GHSA-72h4-mxfc-jx37

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