CVE-2026-32305
Versions 2.11.40 and below, 3.0.0-beta1 through 3.6.11, and 3.7.0-ea.1 are vulnerable to mTLS bypass through the TLS SNI pre-sniffing logic related to fragmented ClientHello packets.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Versions 2.11.40 and below, 3.0.0-beta1 through 3.6.11, and 3.7.0-ea.1 are vulnerable to mTLS bypass through the TLS SNI pre-sniffing logic related to fragmented ClientHello packets. When a TLS ClientHello is fragmented across multiple records, Traefik's SNI extraction may fail with an EOF and return an empty SNI. The TCP router then falls back to the default TLS configuration, which does not require client certificates by default. This allows an attacker to bypass route-level mTLS enforcement and access services that should require mutual TLS authentication. This issue is patched in versions 2.11.41, 3.6.11 and 3.7.0-ea.2.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.40% probability · 34th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-287, CWE-1188, CWE-179
- Affected
- traefik/traefik
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.41Release Notes
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.11Release Notes
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.0-ea.2Release Notes
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-wvvq-wgcr-9q48Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10175
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21772
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-32305
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2449595
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-32305.json
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.