HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting io.netty:netty-codec-http package, versions [,4.1.42.Final)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
2.22% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-469234
  • published26 Sept 2019
  • disclosed26 Sept 2019
  • creditaxeBig

Introduced: 26 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16869  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-113  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.42.Final or higher.

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. Netty mishandles whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers such as a Transfer-Encoding : chunked line. This can lead to HTTP request smuggling where an attacker can bypass security controls, gain unauthorized access to sensitive data, and directly compromise other application users.

Note:

io.netty:netty is deprecated. Users should update to io.netty:netty-all

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