Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 2.11.35 and 3.6.7, there is a potential vulnerability in Traefik ACME TLS certificates' automatic generation: the ACME TLS-ALPN fast path can allow unauthenticated clients to tie up go routines and file descriptors indefinitely when the ACME TLS challenge is enabled. A malicious client can open many connections, send a minimal ClientHello with acme-tls/1, then stop responding, leading to denial of service of the entry point. The vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.35 and 3.6.7.
Advisories
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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-cwjm-3f7h-9hwq Traefik's ACME TLS-ALPN fast path lacks timeouts and close on handshake stall
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History

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:15:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Traefik
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Vendors & Products Traefik
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threat_severity

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Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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Description Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Prior to 2.11.35 and 3.6.7, there is a potential vulnerability in Traefik ACME TLS certificates' automatic generation: the ACME TLS-ALPN fast path can allow unauthenticated clients to tie up go routines and file descriptors indefinitely when the ACME TLS challenge is enabled. A malicious client can open many connections, send a minimal ClientHello with acme-tls/1, then stop responding, leading to denial of service of the entry point. The vulnerability is fixed in 2.11.35 and 3.6.7.
Title Traefik's ACME TLS-ALPN fast path lacks timeouts and close on handshake stall
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-15T22:44:05.423Z

Reserved: 2026-01-05T22:30:38.720Z

Link: CVE-2026-22045

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-15T23:15:51.593

Modified: 2026-01-15T23:15:51.593

Link: CVE-2026-22045

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-01-15T22:44:05Z

Links: CVE-2026-22045 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-01-16T13:42:25Z

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