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SCA: security update for github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 (GHSA-89p3-4642-cr2w)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 437710

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 3.6.8, there is a potential vulnerability in
 Traefik managing STARTTLS requests. An unauthenticated client can bypass Traefik entrypoint
 respondingTimeouts.readTimeout by sending the 8-byte Postgres SSLRequest (STARTTLS) prelude and then
 stalling, causing connections to remain open indefinitely, leading to a denial of service. This
 vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.8. (CVE-2026-25949)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-89p3-4642-cr2w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 437710

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/12/2026

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-25949

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-25949

cwe: CWE-400