CVE-2023-47633: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Traefik
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2023-47633 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in traefik. EPSS estimates a 1.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (GitHub, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 5Timeline
- 04-12-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 27-11-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.27%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
70%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 1.27% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundTraefik
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Github.com/traefik/traefik2 products
- v2< 2.10.6
- v3< 3.0.0-beta5
Github.com/traefik1 product
- traefikAll versions (No fix recorded)
Traefik1 product
- traefikEOL< 2.10.6 | ≥ 3.0.0-beta1, < 3.0.0-beta5 | ≤ 2.10.5 | 3.0.0:beta1 | 3.0.0:beta2 | 3.0.0:beta3 | 3.0.0:beta4
3 vendors · 4 products
References
5 links- github.com/traefik/traefik/security/advisories/GHSA-6fwg-jrfw-ff7pX Refsource CONFIRMWEBAdvisoryExploitThird Party Advisory
- github.com/traefik/traefikPACKAGE