CVE-2026-48491

Traefik: SNICheck ignores wildcard TLSOptions mappings, allowing domain-fronted mTLS bypass

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jun 23, 2026
Updated
Sep 2, 2026
Reserved
May 21, 2026

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Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0 until 3.7.3, there is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's domain-fronting protection (SNICheck) that allows an unauthenticated client to bypass mutual TLS enforced through wildcard router TLSOptions. When a router uses a wildcard host rule such as Host(*.example.com) with stricter TLS options (for example RequireAndVerifyClientCert), SNICheck resolves the TLS options for the HTTP Host header using exact map lookups only and never applies wildcard matching. If another permissive SNI is served on the same entrypoint, an attacker can complete the TLS handshake under the permissive options and then send an HTTP Host header targeting the wildcard-protected backend, reaching it without presenting a client certificate. This affects the regular HTTPS / HTTP-2 path and does not require HTTP/3. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.3.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.8 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:NGitHub_M
3.19.1 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-288 Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
  • CWE-807 Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

Affected Products

ProductVersions
traefiktraefik
  • >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.3Affected

References

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