CVE-2026-110353: HAProxy denial of service via truncated HTTP/2 PING frame

CVE-2026-110353 · Severity: high · CVSS 7.5 · Published 2026-10-22

HAProxy is a load balancer and reverse proxy used by organizations to distribute incoming traffic across multiple servers. An attacker can send specially crafted truncated HTTP/2 PING frames to exhaust CPU resources on worker threads, causing the service to become unresponsive and denying legitimate traffic. Attackers can sustain this attack by opening multiple malicious connections simultaneously.

Technologies: HAProxy. Vendors: HAProxy.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2026-110353 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-110353 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2026-110353?
High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.5, published 22 October 2026.
Which products and versions are affected?
HAProxy 3.2 before 3.4.6.
Is there a fix for CVE-2026-110353?
Yes: fixed in 3.4.6. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
How is CVE-2026-110353 attacked?
It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
Am I affected by CVE-2026-110353?
Check whether you run HAProxy at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • Fixed in: 3.4.6

Technical details

The vulnerability exists in the h2c_handle_ping function in src/mux_h2.c, which fails to validate short reads on incoming HTTP/2 PING frames. When an incomplete frame is received, the data remains unconsumed, causing the H2 multiplexer tasklet to be repeatedly awakened without progress, resulting in busy-waiting CPU consumption. The attack requires only network access and no authentication, and continues until the http-request timeout closes the connection.

Affected products

  • HAProxy HAProxy 3.2 before 3.4.6

Timeline

  • 2026-10-22: disclosed

References

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