Information Exposure Affecting io.netty:netty-codec-http package, versions [4.0.0.Final,4.0.28.Final) [4.1.0.Beta1,4.1.0.Beta5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.56% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-575112
  • published 8 Apr 2015
  • disclosed 8 Apr 2015
  • credit Roman Shafigullin, Luca Carettoni, Mukul Khullar

How to fix?

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.0.28.Final, 4.1.0.Beta5 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 Information Exposure. It does not validate cookie name and value characters, allowing attackers to potentially bypass the httpOnly flag on sensitive cookies.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None