Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting netty package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NETTY-17328775
  • published13 Jun 2026
  • disclosed12 Jun 2026

Introduced: 12 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-50010  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:unstable netty.

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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, SimpleTrustManagerFactory.engineGetTrustManagers() and related paths wrap any user-supplied plain X509TrustManager in X509TrustManagerWrapper, which extends X509ExtendedTrustManager but implements the 3-arg checkServerTrusted(chain, authType, SSLEngine) by discarding the SSLEngine and calling the 2-arg delegate. Because the object now IS an X509ExtendedTrustManager, neither SunJSSE's internal AbstractTrustManagerWrapper nor Netty's own OpenSslX509TrustManagerWrapper will re-wrap it to add endpoint-identification. Consequently, even though Netty 4.2 sets endpointIdentificationAlgorithm="HTTPS" by default, a client built with SslContextBuilder.forClient().trustManager(somePlainX509TrustManager) performs no hostname verification at all. Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1