Servers and applications
CVE-2022-39271
HTTP/2 connections management could cause a deny of service
- Severity
- High 7.5
- Published
- 10 Oct 2022
- Last changed
- 17 Jun 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 1 Nov 2026
- Fixed in
- 2.8.8, 2.9.0-rc5
- Also known as
- GHSA-c6hx-pjc3-7fqr
- Sources
- NVD, Project advisories (GitHub)
Description
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…
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
TraefikServers and applications · cpe:a:traefik:traefik |
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TraefikServers and applications · github:traefik/traefik |
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References
- NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39271
- CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-39271
- GitHub Advisory Database https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c6hx-pjc3-7fqr
- github.com https://github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-c6hx-pjc3-7fqr