CVE-2026-39858 PUBLISHED

Traefik: Forwarded alias spoofing top pre-auth decision bypass

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 07.04.2026 Published: 30.04.2026 Updated: 30.04.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: 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
CVSS Score: 7.8

Product Status

Vendor traefik
Product traefik
Versions
  • Version < 2.11.43 is affected
  • Version >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.14 is affected
  • Version >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.0-rc.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing CWE
  • CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function CWE