CVE-2026-54763 PUBLISHED

Traefik: headerField underscore-variant identity spoofing in BasicAuth / DigestAuth / ForwardAuth

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 15.06.2026 Published: 06.07.2026 Updated: 07.07.2026

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to v2.11.51, v3.6.22, and v3.7.6, Traefik's BasicAuth, DigestAuth, and ForwardAuth middlewares strip canonical-cased spoofed identity headers before writing Traefik's own value, but do not account for underscore-variant header names, which many backends normalize identically to dashed forms. An attacker able to reach a protected route can inject an underscore-variant header that survives Traefik's stripping and reaches the backend alongside, or on the unauthenticated ForwardAuth authResponseHeaders path instead of, the value Traefik intended to set, spoofing identity or authorization context. This issue is fixed in versions v2.11.51, v3.6.22, and v3.7.6.

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 < 2.11.51 is affected
  • Version >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.22 is affected
  • Version >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.6 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-178: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity CWE
  • CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing CWE
  • CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity CWE