Critical severity · published Feb 14, 2023
CVE-2023-25725
HAProxy before 2.7.3 may allow a bypass of access control because HTTP/1 headers are inadvertently lost in some situations, aka "request smuggling." The HTTP header parsers in…
9.1
CVSS
5.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
HAProxy before 2.7.3 may allow a bypass of access control because HTTP/1 headers are inadvertently lost in some situations, aka "request smuggling." The HTTP header parsers in HAProxy may accept empty header field names, which could be used to truncate the list of HTTP headers and thus make some headers disappear after being parsed and processed for HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1. For HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, the impact is limited because the headers disappear before being parsed and processed, as if they had not been sent by the client. The fixed versions are 2.7.3, 2.6.9, 2.5.12, 2.4.22, 2.2.29, and 2.0.31.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.4% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0; 11.0 · source: NVD
HA
Haproxy · Haproxy
before 2.0.31; 2.1.0 before 2.2.29; 2.3.0 before 2.4.22; 2.5.0 before 2.5.12; 2.6.0 before 2.6.9; 2.7.0 before 2.7.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-25725
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-25725
git.haproxy.org
https://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy-2.7.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a0e561ad7f29ed50c473f5a9da664267b60d1112
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/02/msg00012.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FPTJQHKUEU2PQ7RWFUYAFLAD4STEIKHU/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JM5NCIBTHYDTLPY2UNC4HO2VAHHE6CJG/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5348
Product
https://www.haproxy.org/
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