7.5High
Traefik Traefik
CVE-2023-54365
Traefik before 2.10.5 and 3.0.0-beta4 is affected by a denial-of-service vulnerability in HTTP/2 request handling inherited from the Go standard library's HTTP/2 implementation (CVE-2023-44487 / CVE-2023-39325, the 'Rapid Reset' technique). A remote attacker can rapidly create and cancel HTTP/2 streams to exhaust server resources and cause service unavailability.
What this means for your business
- It affects Traefik. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.8% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 53% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Traefik, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- CVSS v4
- 8.7
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Assigned by
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-06-23
- Last modified
- 2026-09-26
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Traefik Traefik- 2.10.5, 3.0.0
- Golang Go- 1.20.10, 1.21.0 - 1.21.3
- Redhat Openshift Aiall versions
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.
References
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-7v4p-328v-8v5g
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/traefik-denial-of-service-via-http-2-request-handling
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-54365
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2491710
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2023/cve-2023-54365.json