CVE-2026-26998: Traefik has unbounded io.ReadAll on auth server response body that causes OOM DOS
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The ForwardAuth middleware reads the entire authentication server response body into memory using io.ReadAll with no size limit. A single HTTP request through a ForwardAuth-protected route can cause the Traefik process to allocate gigabytes of memory and be killed by the OOM killer, resulting in complete denial of service for all routes on the affected entrypoint.
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