Upstream information

CVE-2026-26998 at MITRE

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 the ForwardAuth middleware responses. When Traefik is configured to use the ForwardAuth middleware, the response body from the authentication server is read entirely into memory without any size limit. There is no maxResponseBodySize configuration to restrict the amount of data read from the authentication server response. If the authentication server returns an unexpectedly large or unbounded response body, Traefik will allocate unlimited memory, potentially causing an out-of-memory (OOM) condition that crashes the process. This results in a denial of service for all routes served by the affected Traefik instance. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.38 and 3.6.9.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub)
Base Score 4.4
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required High
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1259276 [IN_PROGRESS]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • traefik >= 3.6.10-1.1
  • traefik2 >= 2.11.40-1.1
Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2026-10314
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2026-10323


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.5 govulncheck-vulndb Affected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Thu Mar 5 22:04:25 2026
CVE page last modified: Thu Mar 26 01:44:23 2026