CVE-2026-88008 – traefik

CVSS 9.1 CRITICAL [2] Critical – Same Day Deployment

“When the gatekeeper waves strangers through, every protected service behind it is open to them.”

This traefik update fixes three authentication and authorization flaws in the reverse proxy. CVE-2026-88007 has a CVSS score of 9.1, Critical severity: with HTTP/3 enabled, an unrelated client can reuse a backend connection already authenticated through NTLM or Negotiate for a victim, then read the victim's data and act as that victim without the victim's credentials. CVE-2026-88008 has a CVSS score of 7.0, High severity: a client-supplied h2c upgrade request opens a raw tunnel to the backend, which skips routers, BasicAuth, ForwardAuth, IP allowlists, rate limits, logging, metrics, and tracing for every HTTP/2 request that follows.

CVE-2026-88877 has a CVSS score of 9.8, Critical severity: in the Kubernetes ingress-nginx provider, a crafted Host header with a non-numeric or empty port sends requests straight to protected backends with every annotation-derived middleware removed, including authentication and source-IP allowlisting. Versions 2.11.57, 3.7.12, and 3.7.13 fix these flaws, depending on the affected branch. Teams running traefik in front of authenticated services should upgrade now.

Key Details

Affected Product
Traefik Traefik
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
CWE Classification
CWE-444
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