HTTP Request Smuggling Affecting io.netty:netty-codec-http package, versions [,4.1.44.Final)
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- published 27 Jan 2020
- disclosed 27 Jan 2020
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 27 Jan 2020
CVE-2019-20445 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http to version 4.1.44.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 due to the package mishandling Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header when using HTTP/1.1. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.
NOTE: This vulnerability has also been identified as: CVE-2020-7238