Critical severity · published Aug 6, 2026
CVE-2026-71324
Traefik: Cross-user response poisoning via proxied CONNECT on Traefik's shared backend keep-alive pool
9.1
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 2.11.53, 3.6.24, and 3.7.9, Traefik's default HTTP reverse proxy forwards a plain HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 CONNECT request and its body to an HTTP/1.1 upstream through a shared net/http.Transport. When the upstream answers the CONNECT with a keep-alive non-2xx response and does not drain the body, Traefik returns the desynchronized backend socket to its shared pool and reuses it for other clients. An unauthenticated attacker can use this behavior to make a different client read the attacker's smuggled response, which can include authenticated or private content from another request. The ForwardAuth middleware with forwardBody true and preserveRequestMethod true can re-issue a CONNECT with the buffered body attached, exposing the auth-client pool to the same desynchronization. This issue is fixed in 2.11.53, 3.6.24, and 3.7.9.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.1% · higher than 65% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TR
traefik · traefik
< 2.11.53; >= 3.0.0, < 3.6.24; >= 3.7.0, < 3.7.9 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71324
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71324
Patch
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/04d36f28e4eae7535e96a6351dd9f7bfb48a30e7
Patch
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/0807b6d5dd1da8b2f7f4076ea2392b5437bf2ab0
Patch
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/94a7508817d180f0ab2f1eae93df48d4ab19ecce
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/13542
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/13543
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/13556
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