CVE-2016-5360

high
Published 2016-06-30 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

HAproxy 1.6.x before 1.6.6, when a deny comes from a reqdeny rule, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access and crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
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
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.5-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6.5-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.6.5-2
debian debiansidfixed1.6.5-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6.5-2
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
haproxyhaproxy1.6.0
haproxyhaproxy1.6.1
haproxyhaproxy1.6.2
haproxyhaproxy1.6.3
haproxyhaproxy1.6.4
haproxyhaproxy1.6.5

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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