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CVE-2014-6269

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-6269 describes multiple integer overflows in HAProxy versions 1.5-dev23 through 1.5.4, specifically within the http_request_forward_body function. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (crash) by sending a large data stream, leading to a buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium severity issue, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, with the primary impact being availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:haproxy:haproxy:1.5:dev23:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:haproxy:haproxy:1.5:dev24:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:haproxy:haproxy:1.5:dev25:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:haproxy:haproxy:1.5:dev26:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:haproxy:haproxy:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.81%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0381 is in the 85th 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 7Fixed in: haproxy-0:1.5.2-3.el7_0
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: haproxy

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-6269Moderate

haproxy: remote client denial of service vulnerability

Aug 5, 2014

References

article.gmane.org / gmane.comp.web.haproxy/17726
Exploit
article.gmane.org / gmane.comp.web.haproxy/18097
git.haproxy.org
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1292.html
secunia.com / advisories/59936
secunia.com / advisories/61507
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/09/09/23