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high 7.5

CVE-2019-14243 json

mastercactapus proxyprotocol vulnerable to denial of service

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-85c5-ccm8-vr96 , GO-2023-1923 , EUVD-2022-3110

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.3%
EPSS 4.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

headerv2.go in mastercactapus proxyprotocol before 0.0.2, as used in the mastercactapus caddy-proxyprotocol plugin through 0.0.2 for Caddy, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (webserver panic and daemon crash) via a crafted HAProxy PROXY v2 request with truncated source/destination address data.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/mastercactapus/proxyprotocol 0.0.2
  • haproxy proxyprotocol 0.0.2

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Exploit prediction

4.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/mastercactapus/proxyprotocol/issues/1 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/mastercactapus/proxyprotocol
<0.0.2
0.0.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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