CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-109575

CriticalCVSS 9.8
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

HAProxy Data Plane API versions 2.2.0 through 3.4.3 (and corresponding Enterprise Edition releases) have process-global authentication logic that improperly drops security controls across multiple transport types. When a TLS CA is configured and a numeric TLS port is specified, the application globally disables Basic authentication on its shared internal request handler, allowing unauthenticated attackers to reach affected HTTP or UNIX endpoints and completely bypass credentials to gain full API administrative access.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can gain full administrative access to the API, allowing them to read sensitive HAProxy configuration data or replace the managed configuration entirely, potentially compromising the entire infrastructure.

Recommendation

Upgrade HAProxy Data Plane API to versions 3.4.4, 3.3.9, 3.2.17, 3.0.25, 2.9.29, or respective EE backports. Additionally, restrict access to management endpoints and enforce network-level authentication.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

In HAProxy Data Plane API 2.2.0 through 3.4.3 (and corresponding Enterprise Edition releases), Server.ConfigureAPI() has process-global authentication logic that improperly drops security controls across multiple transport types. When a TLS Certificate Authority (tls_ca) is configured and a numeric TLS port (tls_port) is specified, the application globally disables Basic authentication on its shared internal request handler. Because this handler is shared concurrently among HTTP, HTTPS, and UNIX domain socket listeners, and mutual TLS (mTLS) client certificate verification (tls.RequireAndVerifyClientCert) is enforced exclusively on the HTTPS server path, all other simultaneously active non-mTLS listeners fail open. Consequently, an unauthenticated attacker capable of reaching an affected HTTP or UNIX management endpoint can completely bypass credentials to gain full API administrative access. This allows unauthorized remote or local actors to read sensitive, cleartext HAProxy configuration data or replace the managed configuration entirely via the raw configuration endpoint. This has been fixed in versions 3.4.4, 3.3.9, 3.2.17, 3.0.25, 2.9.29, and their respective EE backports by migrating to a per-request TLS connection-state validation model.

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