# CVE-2026-54762: Traefik Kubernetes Ingress NGINX provider fails open when auth-secret resolution fails

- Also known as: GO-2026-5128, GHSA-4MR2-FG2P-W63C
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.7.5
- Published: 2026-06-23 · Updated: 2026-06-24

## Affected

- traefik: from 3.7.0-ea.1, fixed in 3.7.5
- github.com/traefik/traefik (Go): all versions
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 (Go): all versions
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 (Go): from 3.7.0-ea.1, fixed in 3.7.5

## Description

Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 3.7.0-ea.1 until 3.7.5, there is a medium severity vulnerability in Traefik's Kubernetes Ingress NGINX provider that causes affected routes to fail open. When an Ingress explicitly enables BasicAuth or DigestAuth through the supported nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-type and auth-secret annotations, but the referenced auth Secret cannot be resolved or parsed, Traefik logs the resolution error, skips installing the authentication middleware, and still emits a router to the backend service. A route that operators intended to protect is therefore published to the data plane without its authentication control, allowing unauthenticated access to the backend. The trigger is an invalid or unresolved auth dependency — a missing, malformed, unreadable, or policy-denied Secret — rather than an intentionally unprotected route. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.7.5.

## 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 (3.7.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-4mr2-fg2p-w63c
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.5

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