HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting netty package, versions <1:4.1.33-1+deb10u2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.78% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-NETTY-1089985
  • published31 Mar 2021
  • disclosed30 Mar 2021

Introduced: 30 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-21409  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-444  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 netty to version 1:4.1.33-1+deb10u2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream netty package and not the netty package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-http2) before version 4.1.61.Final there is a vulnerability that enables request smuggling. The content-length header is not correctly validated if the request only uses a single Http2HeaderFrame with the endStream set to to true. This could lead to request smuggling if the request is proxied to a remote peer and translated to HTTP/1.1. This is a followup of GHSA-wm47-8v5p-wjpj/CVE-2021-21295 which did miss to fix this one case. This was fixed as part of 4.1.61.Final.

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