CVE-2018-15598 — Containous Traefik 1

Containous Traefik 1.6.x before 1.6.6, when --api is used, exposes the configuration and secret if authentication is missing and the API's port is publicly reachable.

01What is this vulnerability?

Containous Traefik 1.6.x before 1.6.6, when --api is used, exposes the configuration and secret if authentication is missing and the API's port is publicly reachable.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-08-21T01:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:01:53.899Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/containous/traefik/pull/3790
• github.com — https://github.com/containous/traefik/pull/3790/commits/368bd170913078732bde5816…
• github.com — https://github.com/containous/traefik/releases/tag/v1.6.6
• github.com — https://github.com/containous/traefik/pull/3790/commits/113250ce5735d554c502ca16…