diff --git a/routes_passthrough.go b/routes_passthrough.go
index 2739052..a9482d4 100644
--- a/routes_passthrough.go
+++ b/routes_passthrough.go
@@ -245,26 +245,64 @@ func passthroughRoute(path string) (providerName, rest string, ok bool) {
 	return providerName, rest, true
 }
 
-// hasTraversalSegment reports whether rest, once percent-decoded, contains
-// a path segment exactly equal to "..". rest is still in its escaped form
-// here (see passthroughRoute) — decoding it is a validation-only step,
-// never used to build the outgoing upstream URL, so a legitimate
-// percent-encoded segment (e.g. "a%2Fb" naming a literal "a/b" resource)
-// still reaches the upstream exactly as the client sent it. Checking the
-// decoded form, not the escaped one, is what catches an encoded traversal
-// attempt like "..%2f..%2fsecret": as a single escaped segment it has no
-// literal "/" for a naive split to catch, but a permissive upstream
-// server decoding that same "%2f" itself would read it as "../../secret"
-// — this check rejects it here instead. A rest that fails to
-// url.PathUnescape at all is rejected too: a malformed percent-encoding
-// is not a path this gateway can reason about safely.
+// hasTraversalSegment reports whether rest, once percent-decoded and
+// normalized, contains a path segment that resolves to ".." or ".". rest
+// is still in its escaped form here (see passthroughRoute) — decoding it
+// is a validation-only step, never used to build the outgoing upstream
+// URL, so a legitimate percent-encoded segment (e.g. "a%2Fb" naming a
+// literal "a/b" resource) still reaches the upstream exactly as the
+// client sent it. Checking the decoded form, not the escaped one, is what
+// catches an encoded traversal attempt like "..%2f..%2fsecret": as a
+// single escaped segment it has no literal "/" for a naive split to
+// catch, but a permissive upstream server decoding that same "%2f"
+// itself would read it as "../../secret" — this check rejects it here
+// instead. A rest that fails to url.PathUnescape at all is rejected too:
+// a malformed percent-encoding is not a path this gateway can reason
+// about safely.
+//
+// Round 3 (security review, 2026-08-22) closes three further bypasses the
+// single-pass decode-and-split above missed, each measured against a
+// real upstream convention:
+//
+//   - Path parameters ("..;/x", the Tomcat/Spring RFC 3986 §3.3
+//     convention): a segment's own identity is everything BEFORE its
+//     first ";" — an upstream honoring that convention resolves
+//     "..;foo=bar" identically to "..". Every segment has its
+//     ";"-suffix stripped before the ".."/"." comparison below.
+//   - Backslash normalization ("..%5c..%5cx", decoding to "..\..\x"):
+//     Windows/.NET and other backslash-normalizing upstreams treat "\"
+//     as an equivalent path separator. The fully decoded string has
+//     every "\" replaced with "/" before splitting, so a segment
+//     hidden behind a backslash is caught the same as one behind "/".
+//   - Double-encoding ("%252e%252e/x"): one url.PathUnescape pass
+//     decodes this to "%2e%2e/x" — still containing "%", meaning a
+//     SECOND decode pass (which this function deliberately never
+//     performs — attempting one only invites indefinite re-encoding)
+//     would reveal a hidden "..". Rather than decode again, a rest that
+//     still contains "%" after the one legitimate unescape pass is
+//     rejected outright — fail closed on ambiguity, matching this
+//     function's existing rule for a rest that fails to unescape at
+//     all. This does reject an operator's literal, intentionally
+//     double-encoded "%25" in a resource name; accepted, since this
+//     package has no legitimate use for one and the alternative is an
+//     unbounded decode loop.
+//
+// Literal ".." and single-encoded "..%2f" keep their existing, already
+// correct behavior — both still resolve to a segment of exactly "..".
 func hasTraversalSegment(rest string) bool {
 	decoded, err := url.PathUnescape(rest)
 	if err != nil {
 		return true
 	}
-	for _, seg := range strings.Split(decoded, "/") {
-		if seg == ".." {
+	if strings.Contains(decoded, "%") {
+		return true
+	}
+	normalized := strings.ReplaceAll(decoded, `\`, "/")
+	for _, seg := range strings.Split(normalized, "/") {
+		if i := strings.IndexByte(seg, ';'); i >= 0 {
+			seg = seg[:i]
+		}
+		if seg == ".." || seg == "." {
 			return true
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/routes_passthrough_test.go b/routes_passthrough_test.go
index 4e70781..7515a92 100644
--- a/routes_passthrough_test.go
+++ b/routes_passthrough_test.go
@@ -206,6 +206,30 @@ func TestHasTraversalSegment(t *testing.T) {
 		{"..%2f..%2fsecret", true},
 		{"..%2F..%2Fsecret", true},
 		{"%zz", true}, // invalid percent-encoding
+
+		// Round 3 (security review, 2026-08-22): path-parameter form
+		// ("..;/x", Tomcat/Spring's RFC 3986 §3.3 convention) — the
+		// segment's identity is everything before its first ";".
+		{"..;/x", true},
+		{"v1/foo;bar/x", false}, // a genuine path parameter on a non-".." segment is not itself traversal
+		{"a;../x", false},       // ";../" strips to "a", not "..", on the FIRST segment — the traversal is in a later, untouched segment here, so this specific rest has no ".." segment at all
+
+		// Round 3: backslash normalization ("..%5c..%5cx" decodes to
+		// "..\..\x" — a Windows/.NET-style separator).
+		{"..%5c..%5cx", true},
+		{"..%5C..%5Cx", true},
+		{"v1%5cfiles", false}, // a single encoded backslash segment with no ".." component
+
+		// Round 3: double-encoding ("%252e%252e/x" decodes ONCE to
+		// "%2e%2e/x" — still containing "%", refused rather than decoded
+		// a second time).
+		{"%252e%252e/x", true},
+		{"%252E%252E/x", true},
+		{"a%25b", true}, // a literal, intentionally double-encoded "%25" (a percent sign) is refused too — accepted trade-off, no legitimate use in this package
+
+		// Existing correct behavior must be unchanged: a legitimate
+		// single-encoded "/" within one segment, and literal "..".
+		{"a%2Fb%2Fc", false},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.rest, func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -835,6 +859,13 @@ func TestHandlePassthrough_TraversalPath_Returns400(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, path := range []string{
 		"/openai/../secret",
 		"/openai/..%2f..%2fsecret",
+		// Round 3 (security review, 2026-08-22): path-parameter form,
+		// backslash normalization, and double-encoding, driven through
+		// the full ServeHTTP dispatch rather than hasTraversalSegment
+		// directly.
+		"/openai/..;/secret",
+		"/openai/..%5c..%5csecret",
+		"/openai/%252e%252e/secret",
 	} {
 		t.Run(path, func(t *testing.T) {
 			req := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, path, nil)