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CVE-2022-39271 json

Traefik HTTP/2 connections management could cause a denial of service

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-c6hx-pjc3-7fqr , EUVD-2022-7073

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Traefik (pronounced traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that assists in deploying microservices. There is a potential vulnerability in Traefik managing HTTP/2 connections. A closing HTTP/2 server connection could hang forever because of a subsequent fatal error. This failure mode could be exploited to cause a denial of service. There has been a patch released in versions 2.8.8 and 2.9.0-rc5. There are currently no known workarounds.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 2.8.8, 2.9.0-rc5
  • traefik traefik 2.8.8

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-39271 updated cvss 7.5

traefik: a closing HTTP/2 server connection could hang forever because of a subsequent fatal error

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/traefik/traefik/v2
<2.8.8
>=2.9.0-rc1, <2.9.0-rc5
2.8.8
2.9.0-rc5

Affected products

  • traefik traefik

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

References

Sources

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