High (7.5). EPSS 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14. In the case of a compressed pointer, a crafted packet can trigger infinite recursion by making the pointer point to itself, or create a long chain of valid pointers resulting in stack exhaustion.
Severity
CVSS 3.0
7.5 high
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)