Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting io.netty:netty-handler package, versions [,4.1.135.Final)[4.2.0.Alpha1,4.2.15.Final)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-17334567
  • published14 Jun 2026
  • disclosed12 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jun 2026

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

How to fix?

Upgrade io.netty:netty-handler to version 4.1.135.Final, 4.2.15.Final or higher.

Overview

io.netty:netty-handler is a library that provides an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in engineGetTrustManagers() and related methods. An attacker can intercept network traffic by providing a malicious X509TrustManager, which bypasses hostname verification during TLS connections.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1