Authentication bypass in Traefik FastProxy connection pool
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Traefik from v3.2.0 before v3.7.14 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the experimental FastProxy connection pool. The pool fails to pin NTLM and Negotiate authenticated backend connections to the frontend connection that completed the handshake, which exposes data to the wrong session (CWE-488). An unauthenticated remote client can be handed a pooled keep-alive backend connection where a victim completed the handshake, which lets the client read the victim's data and act as that victim.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
Description from the CNA
Traefik from v3.2.0 before v3.7.14 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the experimental FastProxy connection pool, which fails to pin NTLM/Negotiate-authenticated backend connections to their frontend connection. Unauthenticated clients can be handed a pooled keep-alive backend connection where a victim completed an NTLM or Negotiate handshake, letting them read victim data and act as that victim.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Update Traefik to v3.7.14, which fixes this issue in the FastProxy connection pool.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-06
- Fix · CNA traefik (traefik) Fixed in 3.7.14
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
traefik 3.7.14
8 records Highest priority Priority LOW 8 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-79151 Authentication bypass in Traefik via shared Negotiate connection poolPriority LOW 33
- TI-2026-79152 Traefik Ingress-NGINX provider lets attackers spoof mTLS client headersPriority LOW 32
- TI-2026-79148 Traefik Authentication Bypass via ssl-passthrough Ingress HTTP RouterPriority LOW 32
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-22 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-114637
- 2026-10-22 Alias added: GHSA-68x8-f35f-jp2f
- 2026-10-23 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-28 CISA SSVC decision points changed
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 CVSS score added · Red Hat
References
More Traefik vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-25774 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Traefik CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2025-40914 Traefik doesn't Prevent Path Normalization Bypass in Router + Middleware Rules CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2022-07529 Authorization header displayed in the debug logs CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2024-30459 HTTP client can remove the X-Forwarded headers in Traefik CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-60261 Traefik v3.7.0 Authentication Bypass via from-to-www-redirect CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-114637 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-114637 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-68x8-f35f-jp2f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-114637 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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