CVE-2026-25949 (GCVE-0-2026-25949)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-12 20:01 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:08
VLAI
Title
Traefik: TCP readTimeout bypass via STARTTLS on Postgres
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
traefik traefik Affected: < 3.6.8
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.27     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_devspaces:3.27::el9
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