CVE-2021-39241

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

Description

An issue was discovered in HAProxy 2.0 before 2.0.24, 2.2 before 2.2.16, 2.3 before 2.3.13, and 2.4 before 2.4.3. An HTTP method name may contain a space followed by the name of a protected resource. It is possible that a server would interpret this as a request for that protected resource, such as in the "GET /admin? HTTP/1.1 /static/images HTTP/1.1" example.

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-2021-39241

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39241.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.