# CVE-2025-47952: Traefik allows path traversal using url encoding

- Also known as: GO-2025-3719, GHSA-VRCH-868G-9JX5
- Severity: CVSS 2.9 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.4.1, 2.11.25
- Published: 2025-05-30 · Updated: 2025-05-30

## Affected

- traefik: fixed in 3.4.1; fixed in 2.11.25
- github.com/traefik/traefik (Go): all versions
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.11.25
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 (Go): fixed in 3.4.1
- github.com/traefik/traefik (Go): through 1.7.34

## Description

Traefik (pronounced traffic) is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to versions 2.11.25 and 3.4.1, there is a potential vulnerability in Traefik managing the requests using a PathPrefix, Path or PathRegex matcher. When Traefik is configured to route the requests to a backend using a matcher based on the path, if the URL contains a URL encoded string in its path, it’s possible to target a backend, exposed using another router, by-passing the middlewares chain. This issue has been patched in versions 2.11.25 and 3.4.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on traefik, github.com/traefik/traefik, github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (3.4.1, 2.11.25) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-vrch-868g-9jx5
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/08d5dfee0164aa54dd44a467870042e18e8d3f00
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.25
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.4.1

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