CVE-2026-71327
Summary
There is a high severity vulnerability in Traefik's Kubernetes Gateway API provider. Router and service identities for HTTPRoute, GRPCRoute, TCPRoute and TLSRoute objects were built by hyphen-concatenating the route namespace, the route name, the Gateway identity, the entry point and the rule index, a construction that is not injective because Kubernetes names may themselves contain hyphens. Two distinct Routes attached to the same Gateway with equivalent match rules can therefore produce the same identity, and the Route loaded later silently overwrites the earlier one, so a tenant able to create an accepted Route in a colliding namespace/name combination can redirect another namespace's traffic to a backend it controls. All Traefik v3 minor lines are affected; the lines older than v3.6 are no longer maintained and will not receive a patch of their own, so users running them should upgrade to a maintained, patched release.
Patches
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.6.25
- https://github.com/traefik/traefik/releases/tag/v3.7.10
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<summary>Original Description</summary>
Summary
Traefik's Kubernetes Gateway provider constructs internal HTTPRoute and
GRPCRoute identities by concatenating namespace, route name, Gateway identity,
entrypoint, and rule index with hyphens. Kubernetes names may themselves
contain hyphens, so the construction is not injective.
For example, HTTPRoutes team/a-app and team-a/app, attached to the same
Gateway with the same match rule, produce identical router and service keys.
During configuration merging, the route loaded later overwrites the earlier
route's maps. A tenant that can create an accepted Route in a colliding
namespace/name combination can therefore redirect another namespace's
traffic to an attacker-controlled backend.
The official v3.7.8 binary was reproduced returning the victim backend b
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.36% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 29% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
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