CVE-2019-18277

HIGH

HAProxy < 2.0.6 - HTTP Request Smuggling via Transfer-Encoding Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in HAProxy before 2.0.6. In legacy mode, messages featuring a transfer-encoding header missing the "chunked" value were not being correctly rejected. The impact was limited but if combined with the "http-reuse always" setting, it could be used to help construct an HTTP request smuggling attack against a vulnerable component employing a lenient parser that would ignore the content-length header as soon as it saw a transfer-encoding one (even if not entirely valid according to the specification).

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nathandavison.com/blog/haproxy-http-request-smuggling
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4174-1/
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00045.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.1002
EPSS Percentile 95.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-444
Status published
Products (1)
haproxy/haproxy < 2.0.6
Published Oct 23, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026