Security vulnerabilities and automated fixes for load balancer issues
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A high-severity configuration injection vulnerability was discovered in an HAProxy dashboard where five form fields were written directly into the HAProxy configuration file without any sanitization. An attacker could exploit this by injecting newline characters and arbitrary HAProxy directives, effectively rewriting load balancer rules, adding unauthorized backends, or bypassing access controls. The fix introduces a sanitization layer that strips non-printable characters from all user-supplied