Severity:

CRITICAL RISK

(10.0)

Authentication Bypass via Spoofed Forwarded Headers (CWE-290) in Traefik ForwardAuth and Snippet Middleware

CVE-2026-39858

Published:

Apr 30, 2026

Status:

Analyzed

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

NDV

Vulnerability Type

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Authentication Bypass / Identity Spoofing

CWE:

CWE-290;CWE-306

Impact:

Authentication Bypass on Protected Routes

Severity:

CRITICAL RISK

(10.0)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Authentication Bypass / Identity Spoofing

CWE:

CWE-290;CWE-306

Impact:

Authentication Bypass on Protected Routes

Severity:

CRITICAL RISK

(10.0)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Catch This CVE While Code Is Being Written

Detect vulnerable code directly in pull requests, so CVEs are fixed before merge.