diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
index 4c84efb9452..1bba77b2584 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifier_cataloger_test.go
@@ -348,6 +348,17 @@ func Test_Cataloger_PositiveCases(t *testing.T) {
 				Metadata:  metadata("haproxy-binary"),
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			logicalFixture: "haproxy/2.0.0/linux-amd64",
+			expected: pkg.Package{
+				Name:      "haproxy",
+				Version:   "2.0.0",
+				Type:      "binary",
+				PURL:      "pkg:generic/haproxy@2.0.0",
+				Locations: locations("haproxy"),
+				Metadata:  metadata("haproxy-binary"),
+			},
+		},
 		{
 			logicalFixture: "haproxy/2.7.3/linux-amd64",
 			expected: pkg.Package{
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
index c3e730c98fc..eb936a93a17 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/classifiers.go
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ func DefaultClassifiers() []Classifier {
 			Class:    "haproxy-binary",
 			FileGlob: "**/haproxy",
 			EvidenceMatcher: evidenceMatchers(
+				FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?m)version (?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.|-dev|-rc)[0-9]+)(-[a-z0-9]{7})?, released 20`),
 				FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?m)HA-Proxy version (?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.|-dev)[0-9]+)`),
 				FileContentsVersionMatcher(`(?m)(?P<version>[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.|-dev)[0-9]+)-[0-9a-zA-Z]{7}.+HAProxy version`),
 			),
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/haproxy/2.0.0/linux-amd64/haproxy b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/haproxy/2.0.0/linux-amd64/haproxy
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..12e68c56cf4
Binary files /dev/null and b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/classifiers/snippets/haproxy/2.0.0/linux-amd64/haproxy differ
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
index 2476da49c69..22c9948c901 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/binary/test-fixtures/config.yaml
@@ -130,6 +130,13 @@ from-images:
     paths:
       - /usr/local/sbin/haproxy
 
+  - version: 2.0.0
+    images:
+      - ref: haproxy:2.0.0@sha256:f88bca67a2782e7bd88af168d5c11216c32104d12fe9240fac54a1d3196e3f9c
+        platform: linux/amd64
+    paths:
+      - /usr/local/sbin/haproxy
+
   - version: 2.7.3
     images:
       - ref: haproxy:2.7.3@sha256:17d8aa6bf16882a294bdcccc757dd4002045f34b719e9f94dfd4801614801aea