CVE-2026-26998

CVE-2026-26998 · Traefik: unbounded io.ReadAll on auth server response body causes OOM denial of service(DOS)

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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.

CVSS 4.4 · Medium · EPSS 0.5%

Published

2026-03-05T16:15:05.653Z

Updated

2026-03-06T16:12:14.907Z

Stack: web

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