CVE-2026-88011: medium-severity vulnerability in traefik
Traefik: ForwardAuth identity spoofing via dot-form header alias
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 0.4%
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 · traefikRelated CVEs — traefik
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-85595CRITICALTraefik before v2.11.55 and v3.0.0 through v3.7.10 Authentication Bypass via digestAuthEPSS 2.5%CVE-2022-23632HIGHTraefik skips the router TLS configuration when the host header is an FQDNEPSS 1.7%CVE-2024-45410CRITICALHTTP client can remove the X-Forwarded headers in TraefikEPSS 1.5%CVE-2025-54386HIGHTraefik's Client Plugin is Vulnerable to Path Traversal, Arbitrary File Overwrites and Remote Code ExecutionEPSS 1.4%CVE-2022-39271HIGHTraefik HTTP/2 connections management could cause a denial of serviceEPSS 1.4%CVE-2023-47633HIGHUncontrolled Resource Consumption in TraefikEPSS 1.3%
References
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