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CVE-2026-121966

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Description

Traefik 2.x before 2.11.60 and 3.x before 3.7.16 sends ForwardAuth subrequests (and, in 3.7, Ingress NGINX auth-url requests) through an auth-server connection pool shared by all clients, exposing connection-bound NTLM or Negotiate authentication. An unauthenticated attacker can reuse another user's authenticated connection, receiving the victim's identity via authResponseHeaders to access backends as that user.

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.0 (v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Awaiting Analysis
Source identifier
Published
2026-11-04 16:17:50.107000
Last modified
2026-11-04 16:17:50.303000
View original CVE JSON
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  "id": "CVE-2026-121966",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-11-04T16:17:50.107",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-04T16:17:50.303",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis",
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      "value": "Traefik 2.x before 2.11.60 and 3.x before 3.7.16 sends ForwardAuth subrequests (and, in 3.7, Ingress NGINX auth-url requests) through an auth-server connection pool shared by all clients, exposing connection-bound NTLM or Negotiate authentication. An unauthenticated attacker can reuse another user's authenticated connection, receiving the victim's identity via authResponseHeaders to access backends as that user."
    }
  ],
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      "source": "[email protected]",
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          "packageURL": "pkg:golang/github.com/traefik/traefik/v2",
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          "Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
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      "url": "https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-hrpp-p4fc-wwf8",
      "source": "[email protected]"
    },
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      "source": "[email protected]"
    }
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