CVE-2026-29054
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 the ForwardAuth middleware responses. When Traefik is configured to use the ForwardAuth middleware, the response body from the authentication server is read entirely into memory without any size limit. There is no maxResponseBodySize configuration to restrict the amount of data read from the authentication server response. If the authentication server returns an unexpectedly large or unbounded response body, Traefik will allocate unlimited memory, potentially causing an out-of-memory (OOM) condition that crashes the process. This results in a denial of service for all routes served by the affected Traefik instance. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.38 and 3.6.9.
EPSS 0.01% · 2.9th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| traefik | traefik | < 3.6.9, 3.1.3, < 2.11.38 |
| github.com | traefik/traefik/v3 | 3.1.3 |
| github.com | traefik/traefik/v2 | 2.11.9 |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-fw45-f5q2-2p4x (circl)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2026-26998 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2026-29054 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2026-29054 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2026-29054 (circl-sighting)
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-92mv-8f8w-wq52 (circl)
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.38 (circl)
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.9 (circl)
Timeline
- Mar 4, 2026 CVE Published
- Mar 5, 2026 CVE Updated
- Mar 5, 2026 PoC Published
- Mar 5, 2026 PoC Published
- Mar 5, 2026 PoC Published
- Mar 6, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 6, 2026 PoC Published
- Mar 7, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 8, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 10, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 11, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 12, 2026 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-fw45-f5q2-2p4x advisory
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-xw98-5q62-jx94 advisory
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-92mv-8f8w-wq52 advisory
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.38 url
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.9 url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-29054 advisory
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik package