CVE-2026-88011

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-rf44-j88r-hh8c

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.12

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.56

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/13720

https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/0331801c72329e0eaeb850e53ccce87c57fbecf8

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v4

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: 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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00246