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William Lallemand e4c8de739c MINOR: hlua: add tune.lua.openlibs to restrict loaded Lua standard libraries
HAProxy has always called luaL_openlibs() unconditionally, which opens all
10 standard Lua libraries including io, os, package and debug. This makes
it impossible to prevent Lua scripts from executing binaries (os.execute,
io.popen), loading native C modules (package/require), or bypassing any
Lua-level sandbox via the debug library.

Add a new global directive tune.lua.openlibs that accepts a comma-separated
list of library names to load:

  tune.lua.openlibs none                   # only base + coroutine
  tune.lua.openlibs string,math,table,utf8 # safe libs only
  tune.lua.openlibs all                    # default, same as before

The base and coroutine libraries are always loaded regardless: base provides
core Lua functions that HAProxy relies on, and coroutine is required because
HAProxy overrides coroutine.create() with its own safe implementation.

When all libraries are enabled (the default), the fast path still calls
luaL_openlibs() directly with no overhead. A parse error is returned if
the directive appears after lua-load or lua-load-per-thread (the Lua state
is already initialised at that point), or if 'none' is combined with other
library names. Note that fork() and new thread creation are already blocked
by default regardless of this setting (see "insecure-fork-wanted").
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.github CI: github: fix tag listing by implementing proper API pagination 2026-03-30 09:16:35 +02:00
addons MINOR: promex: export "haproxy_sticktable_local_updates" metric 2026-03-18 11:18:37 +01:00
admin CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
dev CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
doc MINOR: hlua: add tune.lua.openlibs to restrict loaded Lua standard libraries 2026-04-07 17:01:35 +02:00
examples MINOR: ssl/log: add keylog format variables and env vars 2026-04-01 16:28:49 +02:00
include BUG/MEDIUM: haterm: Move all init functions of haterm in haterm_init.c 2026-04-03 15:09:44 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: add a test for "filter-sequence" directive 2026-04-03 12:10:32 +02:00
scripts SCRIPTS: git-show-backports: list new commits and how to review them with -L 2026-03-31 09:21:49 +02:00
src MINOR: hlua: add tune.lua.openlibs to restrict loaded Lua standard libraries 2026-04-07 17:01:35 +02:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: clarify the experimental status for certain features 2025-10-17 18:41:13 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev8 2026-04-03 11:46:05 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-11-26 16:11:47 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile MINOR: xprt_qstrm: define new xprt module for QMux protocol 2026-04-02 14:02:04 +02:00
README.md DOC: remove openssl no-deprecated CI image 2026-02-19 10:39:23 +01:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev8 2026-04-03 11:46:05 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev8 2026-04-03 11:46:05 +02:00

HAProxy

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.