# CVE-2026-88007: Traefik HTTP/3 Backend NTLM Connection Reuse

- Also known as: GO-2026-6466, GHSA-QQJF-53CJ-PWVV
- Severity: CVSS 9.1 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.11.57, 3.7.13
- Published: 2026-09-10 · Updated: 2026-09-10

## Affected

- traefik: from 2.11.0, fixed in 2.11.57; from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.7.13
- github.com/traefik/traefik (Go): all versions
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 (Go): from 2.11.0, fixed in 2.11.57
- github.com/traefik/traefik/v3 (Go): from 3.0.0, fixed in 3.7.13

## Description

Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. From 2.11.0 until 2.11.57 and 3.7.13, the HTTP/3 entrypoint ConnContext does not call service.AddTransportOnContext, so kerberosRoundTripper uses a shared backend transport instead of a transport dedicated to each frontend connection. With HTTP/3 enabled, a backend using connection-bound NTLM or Negotiate authentication, and backend keep-alive, an unrelated client can reuse a backend connection authenticated for a victim, read victim-only data, and act as that victim without the victim credentials. This issue is fixed in 2.11.57 and 3.7.13.

## 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 (2.11.57, 3.7.13) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-qqjf-53cj-pwvv
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/pull/13812
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/ff39c47d7459dec9cd8de63c1a4e7aa7315bdc1c
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v2.11.57
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.13

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