CVE-2023-0836 (GCVE-0-2023-0836)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-03-29 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-18 16:42
VLAI
Summary
An information leak vulnerability was discovered in HAProxy 2.1, 2.2 before 2.2.27, 2.3, 2.4 before 2.4.21, 2.5 before 2.5.11, 2.6 before 2.6.8, 2.7 before 2.7.1. There are 5 bytes left uninitialized in the connection buffer when encoding the FCGI_BEGIN_REQUEST record. Sensitive data may be disclosed to configured FastCGI backends in an unexpected way.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a HAProxy Affected: HAProxy 2.8, HAProxy 2.7.1, HAProxy 2.6.8, HAProxy 2.5.11, HAProxy 2.4.21, HAProxy 2.2.27
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