CVE-2023-25725HTTP Request Smuggling in Haproxy

Severity
9.1CRITICALNVD
EPSS
20.0%
top 4.51%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedFeb 14
Latest updateDec 3

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages9 packages

debiandebian/haproxy< haproxy 2.6.8-2 (bookworm)
NVDhaproxy/haproxy2.1.02.2.29+5
Debianhaproxy/haproxy< 2.2.9-2+deb11u4+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0, 11.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h2p2-w857-329f: HAProxy before 22023-02-14
OSV
CVE-2023-25725: HAProxy before 22023-02-14

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
HAProxy vulnerability2024-12-03
Red Hat
haproxy: request smuggling attack in HTTP/1 header parsing2023-02-14
Microsoft
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 2023-02-14
Debian
CVE-2023-25725: haproxy - HAProxy before 2.7.3 may allow a bypass of access control because HTTP/1 headers...2023

📄Research Papers

1
arXiv
Securing an Application Layer Gateway: An Industrial Case Study2024-01-11