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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-88878

Traefik v2.8.2 through v3.6 HTTP/3 Timeout Bypass

Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. In versions >= v2.8.2 through <= v2.11.55 and >= v3.0.0 through <= v3.7.11, the entryPoints.<name>.transport.respondingTimeouts settings — notably readTimeout, which is enabled by default at 60s — are not applied to the HTTP/3 request path. readTimeout is enforced as a deadline on the underlying TCP connection, which cannot be applied to a QUIC stream, and Traefik's HTTP/3 server is constructed without any timeout. As a result, on entry points with HTTP/3 enabled, an unauthenticated remote client that trickles request body bytes can hold a request open indefinitely and, with it, one upstream connection per request, exhausting bounded backend connection pools and causing denial of service. The issue was introduced in v2.8.2 when a quic-go API change removed the embedded http.Server that carried these timeouts. Fixed in v2.11.56 and v3.7.12.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

traefik traefik

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.8.2 to ≤ 3.7.13affected
pkg:golang/github.com/traefik/traefik/v2

traefik traefik

Default version status: unaffected

  • 3.0.0 to ≤ 3.7.13affected
pkg:golang/github.com/traefik/traefik/v3

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