CVE-2026-48491

Name
CVE-2026-48491
Description
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0 until 3.7.3, there is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's domain-fronting protection (SNICheck) that allows an unauthenticated client to bypass mutual TLS enforced through wildcard router TLSOptions. When a router uses a wildcard host rule such as Host(*.example.com) with stricter TLS options (for example RequireAndVerifyClientCert), SNICheck resolves the TLS options for the HTTP Host header using exact map lookups only and never applies wildcard matching. If another permissive SNI is served on the same entrypoint, an attacker can complete the TLS handshake under the permissive options and then send an HTTP Host header targeting the wildcard-protected backend, reaching it without presenting a client certificate. This affects the regular HTTPS / HTTP-2 path and does not require HTTP/3. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.3.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
security-advisories@github.com https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.3
security-advisories@github.com https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-5r4w-85f3-pw66
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48491
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491923
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48491.json

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:traefik:traefik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* traefik >= 3.7.0 < 3.7.3

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
traefik edge-community 3.7.1-r0 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
traefik edge-community 3.7.0-r1 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
traefik edge-community 3.7.0-r0 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
traefik 3.24-community 3.7.1-r0 Francesco Colista <fcolista@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable