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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-88011 CVE-2026-88879EUVD-2026-75584GHSA-rf44-j88r-hh8cGO-2026-6455

Traefik: ForwardAuth identity spoofing via dot-form header alias

Published Sep 10, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 2.11.56, and from 3.0.0 until 3.7.12, a client-supplied dot-form header such as X.Authenticated.User survives ForwardAuth replacement and underscoreHeadersStrategy because Go treats it as distinct from X-Authenticated-User while normalization-prone CGI, WSGI, PHP, and NGINX backends collapse both names. A backend can consequently consume the client value instead of the identity Traefik asserted, allowing identity spoofing for any header managed by Traefik. The aliasHeadersStrategy protection is disabled by default and must be configured as delete or reject. The mitigation is available in 2.11.56 and 3.7.12.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
traefik traefik < 2.11.56, >= 3.0.0, < 3.7.12 —

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 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1, SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21897-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling traefik-3.6 No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/traefik/traefik all versions — GO-2026-6455
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 < 2.11.56 2.11.56 GHSA-rf44-j88r-hh8c
Go github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 >= 3.0.0, < 3.7.12 3.7.12 GHSA-rf44-j88r-hh8c

Advisories 3

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