OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy that provides authentication using OAuth2 providers. Prior to 7.15.2, an authorization bypass exists in OAuth2 Proxy as part of the email_domain enforcement option. An attacker may be able to authenticate with an email claim such as attacker@evil.com@company.com and satisfy an allowed domain check for company.com, even though the claim is not a valid email address. The issue ONLY affects deployments that rely on email_domain restrictions and accept email claim values from identity providers or claim mappings that do not strictly enforce normal email syntax. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.15.2.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-c5c4-8r6x-56w3 OAuth2 Proxy has an Authorization Bypass in Email Domain Validation via Malformed Multi-@ Email Claims
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History

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Oauth2 Proxy Project
Oauth2 Proxy Project oauth2 Proxy
Vendors & Products Oauth2 Proxy Project
Oauth2 Proxy Project oauth2 Proxy

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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Description OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy that provides authentication using OAuth2 providers. Prior to 7.15.2, an authorization bypass exists in OAuth2 Proxy as part of the email_domain enforcement option. An attacker may be able to authenticate with an email claim such as attacker@evil.com@company.com and satisfy an allowed domain check for company.com, even though the claim is not a valid email address. The issue ONLY affects deployments that rely on email_domain restrictions and accept email claim values from identity providers or claim mappings that do not strictly enforce normal email syntax. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.15.2.
Title OAuth2 Proxy has an Authorization Bypass in Email Domain Validation via Malformed Multi-@ Email Claims
Weaknesses CWE-863
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-21T20:37:28.072Z

Reserved: 2026-04-14T13:24:29.474Z

Link: CVE-2026-40574

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-21T20:20:47.257Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-04-21T17:16:55.730

Modified: 2026-04-22T21:24:26.997

Link: CVE-2026-40574

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-04-22T11:46:10Z

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