CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-26999

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.54%

42th percentile - higher than 42% of all known CVEs

Summary

In Traefik prior to versions 2.11.38 and 3.6.9, a vulnerability exists in TLS handshake management on TCP routers. An unauthenticated attacker can send an incomplete TLS record and stop transmission, causing the handshake to stall indefinitely and holding connections open.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exhaust file descriptors and goroutines by opening many stalled connections, leading to denial of service (DoS) for all services on the affected entrypoint.

Recommendation

Immediately update Traefik to version 2.11.38 or 3.6.9, which contain the fix for this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to versions 2.11.38 and 3.6.9, there is a potential vulnerability in Traefik managing TLS handshake on TCP routers. When Traefik processes a TLS connection on a TCP router, the read deadline used to bound protocol sniffing is cleared before the TLS handshake is completed. When a TLS handshake read error occurs, the code attempts a second handshake with different connection parameters, silently ignoring the initial error. A remote unauthenticated client can exploit this by sending an incomplete TLS record and stopping further data transmission, causing the TLS handshake to stall indefinitely and holding connections open. By opening many such stalled connections in parallel, an attacker can exhaust file descriptors and goroutines, degrading availability of all services on the affected entrypoint. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.38 and 3.6.9.

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