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CVE-2026-53622

HIGH
7.8
CVSS 4.0
Description
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 3.7.3, there is a critical vulnerability in Traefik's HTTP/3 (QUIC) TLS configuration selection that allows unauthenticated clients to bypass router-specific mTLS enforcement. When HTTP/3 is enabled on an entrypoint, the TLS handshake selects the applicable TLS configuration through an exact, case-sensitive lookup on the SNI value, which fails to match wildcard host patterns (e.g., *.example.com) or case variants of the configured hostname. Because the handshake falls back to the default TLS configuration — which may not require client certificates — a client can complete the QUIC handshake without presenting a certificate, while the subsequent HTTP routing layer still dispatches the request to a backend protected by a router-specific mTLS policy. The issue affects deployments where HTTP/3 is enabled, a router uses a wildcard Host rule or case-insensitive hostname matching, a router-specific TLSOptions enforces client certificate authentication, and UDP access to the entrypoint is reachable by an attacker. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.3.

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-53622
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Reserved
2026-06-09 20:16 UTC
Published
2026-06-23 19:13 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-23 19:13 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-288
CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Ch…
Vendor / Product
traefik / traefik
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

Severity & Metrics

7.8 HIGH CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
Affected products (1)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
traefik traefik < 3.7.3
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-288 cna CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
7.8 HIGH 4.0 cna CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
References (2)
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