# CVE-2026-110353: HAProxy 3.2 before 3.4.6 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (worker-thread CPU exhaustion) via a truncate

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- mitre rates this high
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.2.26, 3.3.17, 3.4.6, 3.5-dev9, 3.2r1-378.1259, and 5 more
- Published: 2026-10-22 · Updated: 2026-10-22

## Affected

- HAProxy: from 3.2.0, fixed in 3.2.26; from 3.3.0, fixed in 3.3.17; from 3.4.0, fixed in 3.4.6; from 3.5-dev, fixed in 3.5-dev9
- HAProxy HAProxy Enterprise Edition: from 3.2.0r1, fixed in 3.2r1-378.1259; from 3.3.0r1, fixed in 3.3r1-377.1005
- HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller: from 3.2.0, fixed in 3.2.17
- Haproxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller Enterprise: from 3.2.0, fixed in 3.2.17-ee1; from 3.0, fixed in 3.0.16-ee17; from 1.11, fixed in 1.11.14-ee11

## Description

HAProxy 3.2 before 3.4.6 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (worker-thread CPU exhaustion) via a truncated HTTP/2 PING frame. h2c_handle_ping in src/mux_h2.c does not check for a short read, unlike the other H2 frame handlers. Because the incomplete frame cannot be processed, its data is never consumed, and the H2 multiplexer tasklet is repeatedly woken by that pending data without making progress. The CPU spins until timeout http-request closes the connection, and an attacker opening many such connections can sustain high CPU usage.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Kubernetes, upgrade to a fixed version (3.2.26, 3.3.17, 3.4.6, 3.5-dev9, 3.2r1-378.1259) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Kubernetes](https://cve.now/tech/kubernetes.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.haproxy.org/?p=haproxy.git;a=commit;h=cec63e95f62a7412484f1134f5aa227e5b7e1466

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