CVE-2026-54763

CRITICAL

Traefik: headerField underscore-variant identity spoofing in BasicAuth / DigestAuth / ForwardAuth

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to v2.11.51, v3.6.22, and v3.7.6, Traefik's BasicAuth, DigestAuth, and ForwardAuth middlewares strip canonical-cased spoofed identity headers before writing Traefik's own value, but do not account for underscore-variant header names, which many backends normalize identically to dashed forms. An attacker able to reach a protected route can inject an underscore-variant header that survives Traefik's stripping and reaches the backend alongside, or on the unauthenticated ForwardAuth authResponseHeaders path instead of, the value Traefik intended to set, spoofing identity or authorization context. This issue is fixed in versions v2.11.51, v3.6.22, and v3.7.6.

Scores

CVSS v3 10.0
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 10.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-178 CWE-290 CWE-345
Status published
Products (5)
traefik/traefik < 2.11.51 (2 CPE variants)
traefik/traefik >= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.22
traefik/traefik >= 3.0.0-beta1, < v3.6.22
traefik/traefik >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.6
traefik/traefik >= 3.7.0-ea.1, < v3.7.6
Published Jul 06, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 07, 2026