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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2025-48865 EUVD-2025-16398GHSA-q7p4-7xjv-j3wfGO-2025-3722

Fabio allows HTTP clients to manipulate custom headers it adds

Published May 30, 2025 · Updated May 30, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Fabio is an HTTP(S) and TCP router for deploying applications managed by consul. Prior to version 1.6.6, Fabio allows clients to remove X-Forwarded headers (except X-Forwarded-For) due to a vulnerability in how it processes hop-by-hop headers. Fabio adds HTTP headers like X-Forwarded-Host and X-Forwarded-Port when routing requests to backend applications. Since the receiving application should trust these headers, allowing HTTP clients to remove or modify them creates potential security vulnerabilities. Some of these custom headers can be removed and, in certain cases, manipulated. The attack relies on the behavior that headers can be defined as hop-by-hop via the HTTP Connection header. This issue has been patched in version 1.6.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
fabiolb fabio < 1.6.6 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20250612T141001-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:15225-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/fabiolb/fabio < 1.6.6 1.6.6 GHSA-q7p4-7xjv-j3wf

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