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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-25748 EUVD-2026-6702

authentik has a forward authentication bypass with broken cookie

Published Feb 12, 2026 · Updated Feb 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

authentik is an open-source identity provider. Prior to 2025.10.4 and 2025.12.4, with a malformed cookie it was possible to bypass authentication when using forward authentication in the authentik Proxy Provider when used in conjunction with Traefik or Caddy as reverse proxy. When a malicious cookie was used, none of the authentik-specific X-Authentik-* headers were set which depending on application can grant access to an attacker. authentik 2025.10.4 and 2025.12.4 fix this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
goauthentik authentik >= 2025.10.0-rc1, < 2025.10.4, >= 2025.10.0-rc1, < 2025.12.4 —

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