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High · 7.7 CVE-2026-27588 EUVD-2026-8540GHSA-x76f-jf84-rqj8GO-2026-4541

Caddy: MatchHost becomes case-sensitive for large host lists (>100), enabling host-based route/auth bypass

Published Feb 24, 2026 · Updated Feb 27, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default. Prior to version 2.11.1, Caddy's HTTP `host` request matcher is documented as case-insensitive, but when configured with a large host list (>100 entries) it becomes case-sensitive due to an optimized matching path. An attacker can bypass host-based routing and any access controls attached to that route by changing the casing of the `Host` header. Version 2.11.1 contains a fix for the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
caddyserver caddy < 2.11.1 —

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
Debian 14 caddy 2.11.2-1 —
Debian 13 caddy 2.6.2-12+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 caddy 2.6.2-5+deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 caddy No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 caddy No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS caddy No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS caddy No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260226T182644-150000.1.149.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0757-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 caddy 2.11.1-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 caddy 2.11.2-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2 < 2.11.1 2.11.1 GHSA-x76f-jf84-rqj8

Advisories 2

References