CVE-2026-25949 PUBLISHED

Traefik: TCP readTimeout bypass via STARTTLS on Postgres

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 09.02.2026 Published: 12.02.2026 Updated: 12.02.2026

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 3.6.8, there is a potential vulnerability in Traefik managing STARTTLS requests. An unauthenticated client can bypass Traefik entrypoint respondingTimeouts.readTimeout by sending the 8-byte Postgres SSLRequest (STARTTLS) prelude and then stalling, causing connections to remain open indefinitely, leading to a denial of service. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.8.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor traefik
Product traefik
Versions
  • Version < 3.6.8 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE