CVE-2026-54763

Traefik: headerField underscore-variant identity spoofing in BasicAuth / DigestAuth / ForwardAuth

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jul 6, 2026
Updated
Jul 8, 2026
Reserved
Jun 15, 2026

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Description

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.

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

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
traefiktraefik
  • < 2.11.51Affected
  • >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.22Affected
  • >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.6Affected

References

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