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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-88878 EUVD-2026-75428GHSA-c9gw-2969-4fg3

Traefik v2.8.2 through v3.6 HTTP/3 Timeout Bypass

Published Sep 10, 2026 · Updated Oct 8, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. In versions >= v2.8.2 through <= v2.11.55 and >= v3.0.0 through <= v3.7.11, the entryPoints.<name>.transport.respondingTimeouts settings — notably readTimeout, which is enabled by default at 60s — are not applied to the HTTP/3 request path. readTimeout is enforced as a deadline on the underlying TCP connection, which cannot be applied to a QUIC stream, and Traefik's HTTP/3 server is constructed without any timeout. As a result, on entry points with HTTP/3 enabled, an unauthenticated remote client that trickles request body bytes can hold a request open indefinitely and, with it, one upstream connection per request, exhausting bounded backend connection pools and causing denial of service. The issue was introduced in v2.8.2 when a quic-go API change removed the embedded http.Server that carried these timeouts. Fixed in v2.11.56 and v3.7.12.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
traefik traefik 2.8.2 – ≤ 3.7.13, 3.0.0 – ≤ 3.7.13 —

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.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling traefik-3.6 No fix yet —

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