Traefik: ForwardAuth identity spoofing via dot-form header alias
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 85% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
Affected products
traefik · traefikReferences
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/0331801c72329e0eaeb850e53ccce87c57fbecf8https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/13720https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.56https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.12https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-rf44-j88r-hh8c