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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-89p3-4642-cr2w Traefik: TCP readTimeout bypass via STARTTLS on Postgres
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Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:15:00 +0000

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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.
Title Traefik: TCP readTimeout bypass via STARTTLS on Postgres
Weaknesses CWE-400
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{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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: 2026-02-12T21:16:17.659Z

Reserved: 2026-02-09T17:13:54.065Z

Link: CVE-2026-25949

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-02-12T21:15:53.389Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-12T20:16:11.227

Modified: 2026-02-12T20:16:11.227

Link: CVE-2026-25949

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