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CVE-2026-48491

Critical · CVSS 10.0

Traefik — Authentication Bypass via mTLS SNICheck wildcard host rule misconfiguration (CWE-288, CWE-807)

CVSS
10.0
nvd
EPSS
KEV
No
Class
other
CWE-288, CWE-807

Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0 until 3.7.3, there is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's domain-fronting protection (SNICheck) that allows an unauthenticated client to bypass mutual TLS enforced through wildcard router TLSOptions. When a router uses a wildcard host rule such as Host(*.example.com) with stricter TLS options (for example RequireAndVerifyClientCert), SNICheck resolves the TLS options for the HTTP Host header using exact map lookups only and never applies wildcard matching. If another permissive SNI is served on the same entrypoint, an attacker can complete the TLS handshake under the permissive options and then send an HTTP Host header targeting the wildcard-protected backend, reaching it without presenting a client certificate. This affects the regular HTTPS / HTTP-2 path and does not require HTTP/3. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.3.

Search profile — drives PoC discovery

Symbols SNICheckHost(`*.example.com`)RequireAndVerifyClientCertTLSOptionswildcard routerdomain-fronting protectionentrypointHTTP Host headerTLS handshakewildcard matchingexact map lookup
Keywords CVE-2026-48491Traefik SNICheck bypassTraefik mTLS bypassTraefik wildcard TLS bypassTraefik domain fronting bypassTraefik RequireAndVerifyClientCert bypassTraefik TLSOptions wildcardGHSA-5r4w-85f3-pw66Traefik 3.7 authentication bypassTraefik client certificate bypass
Versions: 3.7.0 to 3.7.3

References

Status: enriched · ingested 2026-06-30T06:00:22.000Z · profiled 2026-07-01T18:30:14.000Z