CVE-2013-2175

medium
Published 2013-08-19 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

HAProxy 1.4 before 1.4.24 and 1.5 before 1.5-dev19, when configured to use hdr_ip or other "hdr_*" functions with a negative occurrence count, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (negative array index usage and crash) via an HTTP header with a certain number of values, related to the MAX_HDR_HISTORY variable.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.04affected
debian debian6.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.4.24-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.4.24-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.4.24-1
debian debiansidfixed1.4.24-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.4.24-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
redhat redhatenterprise_linux_load_balancer6.0
redhat redhatenterprise_linux_load_balancer6.4
haproxyhaproxy1.4
haproxyhaproxy1.4.0
haproxyhaproxy1.4.1
haproxyhaproxy1.4.2
haproxyhaproxy1.4.3
haproxyhaproxy1.4.4
haproxyhaproxy1.4.5
haproxyhaproxy1.4.6
haproxyhaproxy1.4.7
haproxyhaproxy1.4.8
haproxyhaproxy1.4.9
haproxyhaproxy1.4.10
haproxyhaproxy1.4.11
haproxyhaproxy1.4.12
haproxyhaproxy1.4.13
haproxyhaproxy1.4.14
haproxyhaproxy1.4.15
haproxyhaproxy1.4.16
haproxyhaproxy1.4.17
haproxyhaproxy1.4.18
haproxyhaproxy1.4.19
haproxyhaproxy1.4.20
haproxyhaproxy1.4.21
haproxyhaproxy1.4.22
haproxyhaproxy1.4.23
haproxyhaproxy1.5

References

CWEs

CWE-20 CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.