HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting haproxy package, versions [,2.0.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.43% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HAPROXY-2317787
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed23 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-18277  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade haproxy to version 2.0.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. A flaw was found in HAProxy before 2.0.6. In legacy mode, messages featuring a transfer-encoding header missing the "chunked" value were not being correctly rejected. The impact was limited but if combined with the "http-reuse always" setting, it could be used to help construct an HTTP request smuggling attack against a vulnerable component employing a lenient parser that would ignore the content-length header as soon as it saw a transfer-encoding one (even if not entirely valid according to the specification).

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