HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting netty package, versions <1:4.1.33-1+deb10u3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-NETTY-2314102
  • published10 Dec 2021
  • disclosed9 Dec 2021

Introduced: 9 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-43797  (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+deb10u3 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 asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. Netty prior to version 4.1.71.Final skips control chars when they are present at the beginning / end of the header name. It should instead fail fast as these are not allowed by the spec and could lead to HTTP request smuggling. Failing to do the validation might cause netty to "sanitize" header names before it forward these to another remote system when used as proxy. This remote system can't see the invalid usage anymore, and therefore does not do the validation itself. Users should upgrade to version 4.1.71.Final.

CVSS Scores

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