Remote denial of service in HAProxy

1) Buffer over-read

EUVDB-ID: #VU14915

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-14645

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the HPACK decoder in hpack_valid_idx() function. A remote attacker can send a specially specially crafted HTTP/2 request, trigger out-of-bounds read error and perform a denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

HAProxy: 1.8.0 - 1.8.13

External links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14645
http://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg31253.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.