Memory leak in HAProxy - CVE-2023-0836

 

Memory leak in HAProxy - CVE-2023-0836

Published: April 3, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU74299
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0836
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: HAProxy
Affected software:
HAProxy

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak as there are 5 bytes left uninitialized in the connection buffer when encoding the FCGI_BEGIN_REQUEST record. A remote attacker can force the application to leak memory and disclose potentially sensitive data to configured FastCGI backends.


How to mitigate CVE-2023-0836

Install updates from vendor's website.

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