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CVE-2026-25748 (GCVE-0-2026-25748)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-12 19:36 – Updated: 2026-02-17 15:53
VLAI
Title
authentik has a forward authentication bypass with broken cookie
Summary
authentik is an open-source identity provider. Prior to 2025.10.4 and 2025.12.4, with a malformed cookie it was possible to bypass authentication when using forward authentication in the authentik Proxy Provider when used in conjunction with Traefik or Caddy as reverse proxy. When a malicious cookie was used, none of the authentik-specific X-Authentik-* headers were set which depending on application can grant access to an attacker. authentik 2025.10.4 and 2025.12.4 fix this issue.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-17 15:52 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
goauthentik authentik Affected: >= 2025.10.0-rc1, < 2025.10.4
Affected: >= 2025.10.0-rc1, < 2025.12.4
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