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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-39858 EUVD-2026-26427GHSA-5m6w-wvh7-57vmGO-2026-5149

Traefik: Forwarded alias spoofing top pre-auth decision bypass

Published Apr 30, 2026 · Updated Jul 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to versions 2.11.43, 3.6.14, and 3.7.0-rc.2, there is a high severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Traefik's ForwardAuth and snippet-based authentication middleware. Traefik's forwarded-header sanitization logic targets only canonical header names (e.g., X-Forwarded-Proto) and does not strip or normalize alias variants that use underscores instead of dashes (e.g., X_Forwarded_Proto). These unsanitized alias headers are forwarded intact to the authentication backend. When the backend normalizes underscore and dash header forms equivalently, an attacker can inject spoofed trust context — such as a trusted scheme or host — through the alias headers and bypass authentication on protected routes without valid credentials. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.43, 3.6.14, and 3.7.0-rc.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
traefik traefik < 2.11.43, >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.14, >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.0-rc.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
openSUSE Tumbleweed traefik 3.6.15-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10697-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed traefik2 2.11.44-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10698-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/traefik/traefik <= 1.7.34 — GHSA-5m6w-wvh7-57vm
Go github.com/traefik/traefik all versions — GO-2026-5149
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 < 2.11.43 2.11.43 GHSA-5m6w-wvh7-57vm
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.0-rc.2 3.7.0-rc.2 GHSA-5m6w-wvh7-57vm
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.14 3.6.14 GHSA-5m6w-wvh7-57vm
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.14 · >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.0-rc.2 3.6.14, 3.7.0-rc.2 GO-2026-5149

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