Detections
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CVE-2021-39242

high

Description

An issue was discovered in HAProxy 2.2 before 2.2.16, 2.3 before 2.3.13, and 2.4 before 2.4.3. It can lead to a situation with an attacker-controlled HTTP Host header, because a mismatch between Host and authority is mishandled.

References

https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy%40formilux.org/msg41041.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4960

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RPNY4WZIQUAUOCLIMUPC37AQWNXTWIQM/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ALECUZDIMT5FYGP6V6PVSI4BKVZTZWN/

https://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b5d2b9e154d78e4075db163826c5e0f6d31b2ab1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-08-17

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: High