CVE-2021-32813

Drop Headers via Malicious Connection Header

State
Published
Severity
4.8 Medium
Published
Aug 3, 2021
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
May 12, 2021

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Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to version 2.4.13, there exists a potential header vulnerability in Traefik's handling of the Connection header. Active exploitation of this issue is unlikely, as it requires that a removed header would lead to a privilege escalation, however, the Traefik team has addressed this issue to prevent any potential abuse. If one has a chain of Traefik middlewares, and one of them sets a request header, then sending a request with a certain Connection header will cause it to be removed before the request is sent. In this case, the backend does not see the request header. A patch is available in version 2.4.13. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-913 Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources

Affected Products

ProductVersions
traefiktraefik
  • < 2.4.13Affected
  • <= 1.7.30Affected

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