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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2023-40225: haproxy: Proxy forwards malformed empty Content-Length headers

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 10, 2023
Added
Nov 30, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

HAProxy through 2.0.32, 2.1.x and 2.2.x through 2.2.30, 2.3.x and 2.4.x through 2.4.23, 2.5.x and 2.6.x before 2.6.15, 2.7.x before 2.7.10, and 2.8.x before 2.8.2 forwards empty Content-Length headers, violating RFC 9110 section 8.6. In uncommon cases, an HTTP/1 server behind HAProxy may interpret the payload as an extra request.

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-haproxy
Title
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