High severity · published Mar 5, 2026
CVE-2026-26999
Traefik: tcp router clears read deadlines before tls forwarding, enabling stalled handshakes (slowloris doS)
7.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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 TLS handshake on TCP routers. When Traefik processes a TLS connection on a TCP router, the read deadline used to bound protocol sniffing is cleared before the TLS handshake is completed. When a TLS handshake read error occurs, the code attempts a second handshake with different connection parameters, silently ignoring the initial error. A remote unauthenticated client can exploit this by sending an incomplete TLS record and stopping further data transmission, causing the TLS handshake to stall indefinitely and holding connections open. By opening many such stalled connections in parallel, an attacker can exhaust file descriptors and goroutines, degrading availability of all services on the affected entrypoint. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.38 and 3.6.9.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TR
traefik · traefik
< 2.11.38; < 3.6.9 · source: vendor, NVD
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.27 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-26999
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-26999
Product
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.38
Product
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.9
Patch
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-xw98-5q62-jx94
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10175
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-26999
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2444874
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