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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2021-32813 EUVD-2021-1790GHSA-m697-4v8f-55qgGO-2022-0923

Drop Headers via Malicious Connection Header

Published Aug 3, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to version 2.4.13, there exists a potential header vulnerability in Traefik's handling of the Connection header. Active exploitation of this issue is unlikely, as it requires that a removed header would lead to a privilege escalation, however, the Traefik team has addressed this issue to prevent any potential abuse. If one has a chain of Traefik middlewares, and one of them sets a request header, then sending a request with a certain Connection header will cause it to be removed before the request is sent. In this case, the backend does not see the request header. A patch is available in version 2.4.13. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
traefik traefik < 2.4.13, <= 1.7.30 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/traefik/traefik <= 1.7.30 — GHSA-m697-4v8f-55qg
Go github.com/traefik/traefik all versions — GO-2022-0923
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 < 2.4.13 2.4.13 GHSA-m697-4v8f-55qg

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