CVE-2023-47124

Denial of service whith ACME HTTPChallenge in Traefik

Published Dec 4, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. When Traefik is configured to use the `HTTPChallenge` to generate and renew the Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, the delay authorized to solve the challenge (50 seconds) can be exploited by attackers to achieve a `slowloris attack`. This vulnerability has been patch in version 2.10.6 and 3.0.0-beta5. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should replace the `HTTPChallenge` with the `TLSChallenge` or the `DNSChallenge`.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-3160 Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. When Traefik is configured to use the `HTTPChallenge` to generate and renew the Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, the delay authorized to solve the challenge (50 seconds) can be exploited by attackers to achieve a `slowloris attack`. This vulnerability has been patch in version 2.10.6 and 3.0.0-beta5. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should replace the `HTTPChallenge` with the `TLSChallenge` or the `DNSChallenge`.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8g85-whqh-cr2f Traefik vulnerable to potential DDoS via ACME HTTPChallenge
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Dec 18, 2024, 2:12 PM
Reserved
Oct 30, 2023, 7:57 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 4, 2023, 9:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:32 AM