CVE-2026-39858CWE-290CWE-306

Traefik: Forwarded alias spoofing top pre-auth decision bypass

High · published April 30, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to versions 2.11.43, 3.6.14, and 3.7.0-rc.2, there is a high severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Traefik's ForwardAuth and snippet-based authentication middleware. Traefik's forwarded-header sanitization logic targets only canonical header names (e.g., X-Forwarded-Proto) and does not strip or normalize alias variants that use underscores instead of dashes (e.g., X_Forwarded_Proto). These unsanitized alias headers are forwarded intact to the authentication backend. When the backend normalizes underscore and dash header forms equivalently, an attacker can inject spoofed trust context — such as a trusted scheme or host — through the alias headers and bypass authentication on protected routes without valid credentials. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.43, 3.6.14, and 3.7.0-rc.2.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
EPSS
0.00605 · 48.3th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing; CWE-306 · Missing Authentication for Critical Function
Published
2026-04-30T20:26Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 APR 20:26Z
    Traefik: Forwarded alias spoofing top pre-auth decision bypass
    cvelistv5