Advisories for Golang/Github.com/Fabiolb/Fabio package

The v1.6.6 fix for CVE-2025-48865 sweeps the client Connection header against a hardcoded allowlist protectHeaders (proxy/http_headers.go:28-36) containing only the 7 X-Forwarded family headers. Fabio also injects three operator-configured server-side trust headers that are NOT in that allowlist, so the original hop-by-hop stripping attack still works against them.

Fabio allows clients to remove X-Forwarded headers (except X-Forwarded-For) due to a vulnerability in how it processes hop-by-hop headers. Fabio adds HTTP headers like X-Forwarded-Host and X-Forwarded-Port when routing requests to backend applications. Since the receiving application should trust these headers, allowing HTTP clients to remove or modify them creates potential security vulnerabilities. However, it was found that some of these custom headers can indeed be removed and, in certain …