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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-20103

An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 6.59%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (6.59%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14. In the case of a compressed pointer, a crafted packet can trigger infinite recursion by making the pointer point to itself, or create a long chain of valid pointers resulting in stack exhaustion.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
6.59% probability · 93th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-835
Affected
haproxy/haproxy · canonical/ubuntu linux · redhat/openshift container platform
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.