CVE-2026-25949Traefik: TCP readTimeout bypass via STARTTLS on Postgres
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.77%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 44% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 3.6.8, there is a potential vulnerability in Traefik managing STARTTLS requests. An unauthenticated client can bypass Traefik entrypoint respondingTimeouts.readTimeout by sending the 8-byte Postgres SSLRequest (STARTTLS) prelude and then stalling, causing connections to remain open indefinitely, leading to a denial of service. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.8.
Timeline
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By GitHub_M
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| redhat-SADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.77% · top 44% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/traefik/traefik/v3GHSA-89p3-4642-cr2w (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-89p3-4642-cr2w (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/commit/31e566e9f1d7888ccb6fbc18bfed427203c35678 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25949 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2439522 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-25949.json (opens in a new tab)x_sadp-csaf-vex
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6192 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-6207 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-89p3-4642-cr2w (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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