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haproxy — security advisory
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.
- Products
- haproxy
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.2.16-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39240
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-39240
haproxy
Fixed versions: 2.2.16-1
haproxy
Fixed versions: 2.2.16-1
haproxy
Fixed versions: 2.2.16-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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