Description
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to version 2.4.13, there exists a potential header vulnerability in Traefik's handling of the Connection header. Active exploitation of this issue is unlikely, as it requires that a removed header would lead to a privilege escalation, however, the Traefik team has addressed this issue to prevent any potential abuse. If one has a chain of Traefik middlewares, and one of them sets a request header, then sending a request with a certain Connection header will cause it to be removed before the request is sent. In this case, the backend does not see the request header. A patch is available in version 2.4.13. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.
References (3)
Scores
CVSS v3
4.8
EPSS
0.0038
EPSS Percentile
59.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Details
CWE
CWE-913
Status
published
Products (3)
traefik/traefik
< 2.4.13
traefik/traefik
0Go
traefik/traefik
0 - 2.4.13Go
Published
Aug 03, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026