CVE-2026-88011CWE-290

CVE-2026-88011

High · published September 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
5.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
EPSS
0.00420 · 35.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-290 · Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
Published
2026-09-10T20:18Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
traefik/traefik< 2.11.562.11.56
traefik/traefik≥ 3.0.0, < 3.7.123.7.12
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 SEP 03:22Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 10 SEP 15:31Z
    Traefik: ForwardAuth identity spoofing via dot-form header alias
    cvelistv5