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Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to versions 2.11.43, 3.6.14, and 3.7.0-rc.2, there is a high severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Traefik's StripPrefixRegex middleware when used in combination with ForwardAuth, BasicAuth, or DigestAuth. The middleware matches the regex against the decoded URL path but uses the resulting byte length to slice the percent-encoded raw path. When a dot (or multiple dots) appears in the prefix portion of the URL, the raw path after stripping becomes a dot-segment (e.g. /./admin/secret). ForwardAuth receives this dot-segment path in X-Forwarded-Uri, which does not match the protected path patterns and therefore allows the request through. The backend then normalizes the dot-segment to the real path per RFC 3986 and serves the protected content An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this against any backend that performs dot-segment normalization. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.43, 3.6.14, and 3.7.0-rc.2.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-15 | Published 2026-04-30 | Updated 2026-05-01 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.8CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:L/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-706: Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference

Product status

< 2.11.43
affected

>= 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.6.14
affected

>= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.0-rc.2
affected

References

github.com/...raefik/security/advisories/GHSA-6jwx-7vp4-9847

github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.43

github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.14

github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.0-rc.2

cve.org (CVE-2026-40912)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-40912)

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