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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-48491 EUVD-2026-38575GHSA-5r4w-85f3-pw66GO-2026-5152

Traefik: SNICheck ignores wildcard TLSOptions mappings, allowing domain-fronted mTLS bypass

Published Jun 23, 2026 · Updated Sep 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0 until 3.7.3, there is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's domain-fronting protection (SNICheck) that allows an unauthenticated client to bypass mutual TLS enforced through wildcard router TLSOptions. When a router uses a wildcard host rule such as Host(*.example.com) with stricter TLS options (for example RequireAndVerifyClientCert), SNICheck resolves the TLS options for the HTTP Host header using exact map lookups only and never applies wildcard matching. If another permissive SNI is served on the same entrypoint, an attacker can complete the TLS handshake under the permissive options and then send an HTTP Host header targeting the wildcard-protected backend, reaching it without presenting a client certificate. This affects the regular HTTPS / HTTP-2 path and does not require HTTP/3. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
traefik traefik >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.3 —

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
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed traefik 3.7.5-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11047-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21761-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 < 2.11.48 2.11.48 GHSA-5r4w-85f3-pw66
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.3 3.7.3 GHSA-5r4w-85f3-pw66

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