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CVE-2023-47633

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Traefik

7.5 HighFix available

Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. The traefik docker container uses 100% CPU when it serves as its own backend, which is an automatically generated route resulting from the Docker integration in the default configuration. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.10.6 and 3.0.0-beta5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

1.27%Up 1.2 points since Dec 5, 2023
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 7.5

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Traefik

Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. The traefik docker container uses 100% CPU when it serves as its own backend, which is an automatically generated route resulting from the Docker integration in the default configuration. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.10.6 and 3.0.0-beta5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Record
CVE-2023-47633
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-3125 7.5

Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. The traefik docker container uses 100% CPU when it serves as its own backend, which is an automatically generated route resulting from the Docker integration in the default configuration. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.10.6 and 3.0.0-beta5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Record
EUVD-2023-3125
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-6fwg-jrfw-ff7p 7.5

Traefik docker container using 100% CPU

Summary

The traefik docker container uses 100% CPU when it serves as its own backend, which is an automatically generated route resulting from the Docker integration in the default configuration.

Details

While attempting to set up Traefik to handle traffic for Docker containers, I observed in the webUI a rule with the following information:

Host(traefik-service) | webwebsecure | traefik-service@docker | traefik-service

I assumed that this is something internal; however, I wondered why it would have a host rule on the web entrypoint configured.

So I have send a request with that hostname with curl -v --resolve "traefik-service:80:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" http://traefik-service. That made my whole server unresponsive.

I assume the name comes from a docker container with that name, traefik itself:

localhost ~ # docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                                   COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS         PORTS                                                                                                NAMES
d1414e74aec7   traefik:v2.10                                           "/entrypoint.sh trae…"   4 minutes ago       Up 4 minutes   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp, 127.0.0.1:8080->8080/tcp   traefik.service

PoC

  1. Start traefik with docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -p 80:80 --name foo -p 8080:8080 traefik:v2.10 --api.insecure=true --providers.docker

  2. curl -v --resolve "foo:80:127.0.0.1" http://foo

looks like this creates an endless loop of request.

Knowing the name of the docker container seems to be enough to trigger this, if the docker backend is used.

Impact

Server is unreachable and uses 100% CPU

Record
GHSA-6fwg-jrfw-ff7p
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400, CWE-770
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 7.5

Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. The traefik docker container uses 100% CPU when it serves as its own backend, which is an automatically generated route resulting from the Docker integration in the default configuration. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.10.6 and 3.0.0-beta5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Record
CVE-2023-47633
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 7.5

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Traefik

Traefik is an open source HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. The traefik docker container uses 100% CPU when it serves as its own backend, which is an automatically generated route resulting from the Docker integration in the default configuration. This issue has been addressed in versions 2.10.6 and 3.0.0-beta5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Record
CVE-2023-47633
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-6fwg-jrfw-ff7p 7.5

Traefik docker container using 100% CPU

Summary

The traefik docker container uses 100% CPU when it serves as its own backend, which is an automatically generated route resulting from the Docker integration in the default configuration.

Details

While attempting to set up Traefik to handle traffic for Docker containers, I observed in the webUI a rule with the following information:

Host(traefik-service) | webwebsecure | traefik-service@docker | traefik-service

I assumed that this is something internal; however, I wondered why it would have a host rule on the web entrypoint configured.

So I have send a request with that hostname with curl -v --resolve "traefik-service:80:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" http://traefik-service. That made my whole server unresponsive.

I assume the name comes from a docker container with that name, traefik itself:

localhost ~ # docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                                   COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS         PORTS                                                                                                NAMES
d1414e74aec7   traefik:v2.10                                           "/entrypoint.sh trae…"   4 minutes ago       Up 4 minutes   0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp, 127.0.0.1:8080->8080/tcp   traefik.service

PoC

  1. Start traefik with docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -p 80:80 --name foo -p 8080:8080 traefik:v2.10 --api.insecure=true --providers.docker

  2. curl -v --resolve "foo:80:127.0.0.1" http://foo

looks like this creates an endless loop of request.

Knowing the name of the docker container seems to be enough to trigger this, if the docker backend is used.

Impact

Server is unreachable and uses 100% CPU

Record
GHSA-6fwg-jrfw-ff7p
CVSS 3.1
7.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-400, CWE-770
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVGO-2023-2377 No score

Traefik docker container using 100% CPU in github.com/traefik/traefik

Traefik docker container using 100% CPU in github.com/traefik/traefik

Record
GO-2023-2377
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:13506-1 No score

traefik-2.10.7-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the traefik-2.10.7-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:13506-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:14076-1 No score

traefik2-2.11.5-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the traefik2-2.11.5-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:14076-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
github.com/traefik/traefik/v2
Go
before 2.10.6
2.10.6
github.com/traefik/traefik/v3
Go
before 3.0.0-beta5
3.0.0-beta5
github.com/traefik/traefik
Go
All versions None known
traefik
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 6 CVEs
before 2.10.7-1.1
2.10.7-1.1
traefik2
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
From an advisory covering 15 CVEs
before 2.11.5-1.1
2.11.5-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, facts
aliasesEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2023-47633 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Traefik, published December 4, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.27%, the 69th percentile. Fixed in github.com/traefik/traefik/v2 2.10.6.

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