CVE-2021-39240

medium
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

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 does not ensure that the scheme and path portions of a URI have the expected characters. For example, the authority field (as observed on a target HTTP/2 server) might differ from what the routing rules were intended to achieve.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-39240

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39240.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2.4.3-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.2.16-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.2.9-2+deb11u1
debian debianforkyfixed2.2.16-1
debian debiansidfixed2.2.16-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.2.16-1

References

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