CVE-2026-88011

Traefik: ForwardAuth identity spoofing via dot-form header alias

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Updated
Sep 15, 2026
Reserved
Sep 9, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.05.3 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Affected Products

ProductVersions
traefiktraefik
  • < 2.11.56Affected
  • >= 3.0.0, < 3.7.12Affected

References

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