Critical severity · published Jun 23, 2026
CVE-2026-48491
Traefik: SNICheck ignores wildcard TLSOptions mappings, allowing domain-fronted mTLS bypass
10.0
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0 until 3.7.3, there is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's domain-fronting protection (SNICheck) that allows an unauthenticated client to bypass mutual TLS enforced through wildcard router TLSOptions. When a router uses a wildcard host rule such as Host(*.example.com) with stricter TLS options (for example RequireAndVerifyClientCert), SNICheck resolves the TLS options for the HTTP Host header using exact map lookups only and never applies wildcard matching. If another permissive SNI is served on the same entrypoint, an attacker can complete the TLS handshake under the permissive options and then send an HTTP Host header targeting the wildcard-protected backend, reaching it without presenting a client certificate. This affects the regular HTTPS / HTTP-2 path and does not require HTTP/3. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 29% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TR
traefik · traefik
>= 3.7.0, < 3.7.3 · source: vendor, NVD
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.30 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48491
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48491
Patch
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.3
Exploit
https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-5r4w-85f3-pw66
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62260
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48491
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491923
security.access.redhat.com
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-48491.json
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