7.8
/ 10
HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
Description
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to versions 2.11.43, 3.6.14, and 3.7.0-rc.2, there is a high severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Traefik's ForwardAuth and snippet-based authentication middleware. Traefik's forwarded-header sanitization logic targets only canonical header names (e.g., X-Forwarded-Proto) and does not strip or normalize alias variants that use underscores instead of dashes (e.g., X_Forwarded_Proto). These unsanitized alias headers are forwarded intact to the authentication backend. When the backend normalizes underscore and dash header forms equivalently, an attacker can inject spoofed trust context — such as a trusted scheme or host — through the alias headers and bypass authentication on protected routes without valid credentials. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.43, 3.6.14, and 3.7.0-rc.2.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-39858
Source
GitHub_M
Published
Apr 30, 2026 at 20:26
Affected Product
Vendor
traefik
Product
traefik
Version
< 2.11.43
Affected Versions
traefik traefik < 2.11.43
traefik traefik >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.14
traefik traefik >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.0-rc.2
traefik traefik >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.14
traefik traefik >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.0-rc.2