CVE-2026-26999

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.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:a:traefik:traefik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:traefik:traefik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

06 Mar 2026, 15:27

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.38 - () https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.38 - Product, Release Notes
References () https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.9 - () https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.9 - Product, Release Notes
References () https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-xw98-5q62-jx94 - () https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-xw98-5q62-jx94 - Patch, Vendor Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:a:traefik:traefik:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Traefik
Traefik traefik

05 Mar 2026, 19:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-03-05 19:16

Updated : 2026-03-06 15:27


NVD link : CVE-2026-26999

Mitre link : CVE-2026-26999

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-26999


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Products Affected

traefik

  • traefik
CWE
CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption