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Fencer Vulns
high 7.4

CVE-2026-88004 json

Traefik entrypoint header-name sanitization bypassed via request trailers

published 2026-09-10 1 mo ago modified 2026-09-17 52 d ago also GHSA-v67p-phpq-fc8x , GO-2026-6467 , EUVD-2026-75538

cvss
7.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 39%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.2.0 until 3.7.13, Traefik entrypoint defenses aliasHeadersStrategy, underscoreHeadersStrategy, and forwardedHeaders inspect req.Header but not req.Trailer, allowing an unauthenticated client to submit an aliasing or trusted header name in an HTTP/1.1 chunked trailer or an HTTP/2 trailer. When the retry or buffering middleware reads the body before the reverse proxy clones the request, the attacker-controlled trailer value reaches a backend that merges trailers into the header namespace, bypassing the documented delete or reject behavior and potentially spoofing identity or forwarded routing data. This issue is fixed in 3.7.13.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 3.7.13
  • traefik traefik 3.7.13
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLES 16.0, SLES for SAP applications 16.0 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:23855-1SUSE-SU-2026:23863-1

  • traefik openSUSE Tumbleweed 3.7.13-1.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260916T180043-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:12076-1openSUSE-SU-2026:21897-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-88004 updated cvss 6.8

github.com/traefik/traefik: Traefik: Security bypass and identity spoofing via unsanitized request trailers

  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 devspaces/traefik-rhel9 1792464177
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:90321
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 devspaces/udi-rhel9 1792708612, devspaces/code-rhel9 1792599388, devspaces/server-rhel9 1792775639, devspaces/openvsx-rhel9 1792494821, devspaces/udi-base-rhel9 1792686842, devspaces/code-sshd-rhel9 1792598059, +9 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
1 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 39% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
CNA 4.0 7.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/traefik/traefik/v3
>=3.2.0, <3.7.13
3.7.13
go github.com/traefik/traefik
all versions
 no fix listed
go github.com/traefik/traefik/v2
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • traefik traefik

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict
  • CWE-807 Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

References

Sources

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