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CVE-2013-2175

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2175 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in HAProxy versions 1.4.x before 1.4.24 and 1.5.x before 1.5-dev19, impacting Canonical, Debian, HAProxy, and Red Hat distributions. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the HAProxy server by sending specially crafted HTTP headers when certain "hdr_*" functions are configured with a negative occurrence count, leading to negative array index usage. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts:*:*:*:*:*
12.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_linux_load_balancer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.52%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0352 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: haproxy-0:1.4.22-5.el6_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHEL 6 Version of OpenShift Enterprise 1.2Fixed in: haproxy-0:1.4.22-6.el6op
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-2175Moderate

haproxy: http_get_hdr()/get_ip_from_hdr2() MAX_HDR_HISTORY handling denial of service

Jun 17, 2013

References

marc.info
PatchThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1120.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-1204.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
secunia.com / advisories/54344
debian.org / security/2013/dsa-2711
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-1889-1
Third Party Advisory