# CVE-2026-48020: Traefik StripPrefix Route-Level Auth Bypass via Path Normalization

- Also known as: GHSA-XF64-8MW2-4GR2, GO-2026-5752
- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 3.7.3, 3.6.19, 2.11.48
- Published: 2026-06-23 · Updated: 2026-09-02

## Affected

- traefik: from 3.7.0-ea.1, fixed in 3.7.3; from 3.0.0-beta1, fixed in 3.6.19; fixed in 2.11.48
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.11.48
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 (Go): fixed in 3.6.19
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 (Go): from 3.7.0-ea.1, fixed in 3.7.3
- github.com/traefik/traefik (Go): all versions
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 (Go): fixed in 3.6.19; from 3.7.0-ea.1, fixed in 3.7.3

## Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 2.11.48, 3.6.19, and 3.7.3, there is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's StripPrefix middleware that allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass route-level authentication and authorization. When a public router matches on a PathPrefix rule and applies the StripPrefix middleware, a request path containing .. or its percent-encoded form %2e%2e can match the public route at routing time and then, after the prefix is stripped and the path is normalized, resolve to a path served by a separate, authenticated router. As a result, an attacker can reach protected backend paths — such as admin or internal configuration endpoints — without satisfying the authentication middleware attached to the protected router. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.48, 3.6.19, and 3.7.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on traefik, github.com/traefik/traefik/v2, github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (3.7.3, 3.6.19, 2.11.48) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-xf64-8mw2-4gr2
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.48
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.19
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.3
- https://github.com/Hunt-Benito/traefik-stripprefix-auth-bypass-cve-2026-48020-path-normalization

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