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CVE-2022-39271GHSA-C6HX-PJC3-7FQR

Traefik HTTP/2 connections management could cause a denial of service

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.8.8, 2.9.0-rc5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Traefik (pronounced traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that assists in deploying microservices. There is a potential vulnerability in Traefik managing HTTP/2 connections. A closing HTTP/2 server connection could hang forever because of a subsequent fatal error. This failure mode could be exploited to cause a denial of service. There has been a patch released in versions 2.8.8 and 2.9.0-rc5. There are currently no known workarounds.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • traefik traefik

    fixed in 2.8.8; From 2.9.0-rc1 · fixed in 2.9.0-rc5

  • github.com/traefik/traefik/v2Go

    fixed in 2.8.8

  • github.com/traefik/traefik/v2Go

    From 2.9.0-rc1 · fixed in 2.9.0-rc5

References 3

GitHub · traefik/traefik