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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-30851 EUVD-2026-10176GHSA-7r4p-vjf4-gxv4GO-2026-4639

Caddy forward_auth copy_headers Does Not Strip Client-Supplied Headers, Allowing Identity Injection and Privilege Escalation

Published Mar 7, 2026 · Updated Mar 9, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default. From version 2.10.0 to before version 2.11.2, forward_auth copy_headers does not strip client-supplied headers, allowing identity injection and privilege escalation. This issue has been patched in version 2.11.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
caddyserver caddy >= 2.10.0, < 2.11.2 —

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
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 0.0.20260317T205859-150000.1.152.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1042-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 caddy 2.11.2-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 caddy 2.11.2-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2 >= 2.10.0, < 2.11.2 2.11.2 GO-2026-4639
Go github.com/caddyserver/caddy/v2/modules/caddyhttp/reverseproxy >= 2.10.0, < 2.11.2 2.11.2 GHSA-7r4p-vjf4-gxv4

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