# CVE-2022-39271: Traefik HTTP/2 connections management could cause a denial of service

- Also known as: GHSA-C6HX-PJC3-7FQR
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.8.8, 2.9.0-rc5
- Published: 2022-10-11 · Updated: 2025-04-23

## Affected

- traefik: fixed in 2.8.8; from 2.9.0-rc1, fixed in 2.9.0-rc5
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.8.8
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 (Go): from 2.9.0-rc1, fixed in 2.9.0-rc5

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on traefik, github.com/traefik/traefik/v2, upgrade to a fixed version (2.8.8, 2.9.0-rc5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-c6hx-pjc3-7fqr
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.8.8
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.9.0-rc5

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