Host restriction bypass via unescaped Knative rule values
Published Mar 27, 2026 · Updated Mar 27, 2026
Rule injection in Traefik Proxy before 3.6.11 and 3.7.0-ea.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass host routing restrictions. The Knative provider inserts rules[].hosts[] and headers[].exact strings into backtick-delimited router expressions without escaping, so a backtick closes the literal and injects operators. Exploitation requires permission to create or update Knative Ingress resources with the experimental provider enabled, and successful host injection exposes victim services across tenant boundaries.
Summary
What happened
Rule injection in Traefik Proxy before 3.6.11 and 3.7.0-ea.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass host routing restrictions. The Knative provider inserts rules[].hosts[] and headers[].exact strings into backtick-delimited router expressions without escaping, so a backtick closes the literal and injects operators. Exploitation requires permission to create or update Knative Ingress resources with the experimental provider enabled, and successful host injection exposes victim services across tenant boundaries.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-32695
- Published
- Mar 27, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 27, 2026
- Vendor
- Traefik Labs
- Product
- Traefik Proxy
- Classifications
- CWE-917, CWE-74, T1190
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 27, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 27, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Is a vulnerable build present?
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- Affected versionversion=< 3.6.11
- Affected versionversion=>= 3.7.0-ea.1, < 3.7.0-ea.2
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Attacks
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Traefik Knative host-injection cluster proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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