CVE-2026-54763

Summary

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to v2.11.51, v3.6.22, and v3.7.6, Traefik's BasicAuth, DigestAuth, and ForwardAuth middlewares strip canonical-cased spoofed identity headers before writing Traefik's own value, but do not account for underscore-variant header names, which many backends normalize identically to dashed forms. An attacker able to reach a protected route can inject an underscore-variant header that survives Traefik's stripping and reaches the backend alongside, or on the unauthenticated ForwardAuth authResponseHeaders path instead of, the value Traefik intended to set, spoofing identity or authorization context. This issue is fixed in versions v2.11.51, v3.6.22, and v3.7.6.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
traefiktraefik< 2.11.51affected
traefiktraefik>= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.22affected
traefiktraefik>= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.6affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-178: CWE-178: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
  • CWE-290: CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
  • CWE-345: CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

References