# Traefik: Rootless HTTP/1 request-target routes as "/" but is forwarded verbatim, bypassing path-scoped routing, middleware guards and access logging

Advisory record · `GHSA-f52w-8j3h-j724`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-f52w-8j3h-j724` · `CVE-2026-88009` · `GO-2026-6465`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.8 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-444](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/444.html) · [CWE-1286](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1286.html)
- **Tags:** [HTTP request smuggling](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/request-smuggling.md) · [CWE-1286](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-1286.md)
- **Published:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Updated:** 17 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 10 Sept 2026, 23:03 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `github.com/traefik/traefik/v3` (Go): affected `>=3.0.0, <3.7.13`; fixed in `3.7.13`
- `github.com/traefik/traefik/v2` (Go): affected `<2.11.57`; fixed in `2.11.57`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> Traefik v3 (>=3.0.0, <3.7.13) and Traefik v2 (<2.11.57) are affected. A remote, unauthenticated client can send an HTTP/1.x request with a rootless request-target, which Traefik routes and enforces guards against as path "/" while forwarding the original target unchanged to the backend. This can bypass host-based routing, path-scoped middleware and authorization, and access logging. Upgrade Traefik v3 to 3.7.13 or Traefik v2 to 2.11.57; the source lists no workaround.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.8 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0044, the 38th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:13 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:13 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-f52w-8j3h-j724)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-f52w-8j3h-j724](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f52w-8j3h-j724)
- [OSV: GHSA-f52w-8j3h-j724](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-f52w-8j3h-j724)
- <https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-f52w-8j3h-j724>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-88009>
- <https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/13796>
- <https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/58d1e9ca204526823211e30fd4634101c59d58e9>
- <https://github.com/traefik/traefik>
- <https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.57>
- <https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.13>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

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