High severity · published Aug 3, 2021
CVE-2021-32813
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer
8.1
CVSS
1.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to version 2.4.13, there exists a potential header vulnerability in Traefik's handling of the Connection header. Active exploitation of this issue is unlikely, as it requires that a removed header would lead to a privilege escalation, however, the Traefik team has addressed this issue to prevent any potential abuse. If one has a chain of Traefik middlewares, and one of them sets a request header, then sending a request with a certain Connection header will cause it to be removed before the request is sent. In this case, the backend does not see the request header. A patch is available in version 2.4.13. There are no known workarounds aside from upgrading.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
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
before 2.4.13 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32813
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32813
Patch
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/8319/commits/cbaf86a93014a969b8accf39301932c17d0d73f9
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.4.13
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-m697-4v8f-55qg
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