CVE-2026-25748 — authentik has a forward authentication bypass with broken cookie
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 authenticati…
Published: 2026-02-12 · CVSS: 8.6 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7