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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 12, 2026· Updated Feb 17, 2026

authentik has a forward authentication bypass with broken cookie

CVE-2026-25748

Description

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.

Affected products

2
  • Range: >= 2025.10.0, < 2025.10.4; >= 2025.12.0, < 2025.12.4
  • goauthentik/authentikv5
    Range: >= 2025.10.0-rc1, < 2025.10.4

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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