CVE-2026-42273
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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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.8
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Deferred
Source identifier
Published
2026-05-08 04:16:22.457000
Last modified
2026-10-26 20:10:00.160000
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"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-05-08T04:16:22.457",
"lastModified": "2026-10-26T20:10:00.160",
"vulnStatus": "Deferred",
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"value": "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."
},
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"value": "Heimdall es un servicio de Proxy Consciente de Identidad y de Decisión de Control de Acceso nativo de la nube. Antes de la versión 0.17.14, Heimdall realiza la coincidencia de hosts de manera sensible a mayúsculas y minúsculas, mientras que los nombres de host HTTP no distinguen entre mayúsculas y minúsculas. Esta discrepancia puede hacer que Heimdall no logre hacer coincidir una regla para un host de solicitud que difiere solo en el uso de mayúsculas y minúsculas, lo que podría causar que la solicitud se clasifique de manera diferente a lo previsto. Este problema ha sido parcheado en la versión 0.17.14."
}
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"affected": [
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"source": "[email protected]",
"affectedData": [
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"vendor": "dadrus",
"product": "heimdall",
"versions": [
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"status": "affected"
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"attackComplexity": "LOW",
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"availabilityRequirement": "NOT_DEFINED",
"modifiedAttackVector": "NOT_DEFINED",
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"modifiedUserInteraction": "NOT_DEFINED",
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"modifiedSubIntegrityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
"modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Safety": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
"Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
"valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
"vulnerabilityResponseEffort": "NOT_DEFINED",
"providerUrgency": "NOT_DEFINED"
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"references": [
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"url": "https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/commit/3d05e56a9e7ef0355f17482b4322054af4e85943",
"source": "[email protected]"
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"url": "https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/pull/3208",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/releases/tag/v0.17.14",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/dadrus/heimdall/security/advisories/GHSA-72h4-mxfc-jx37",
"source": "[email protected]"
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}