CVE-2019-16869

HIGH

Netty <4.1.42 - HTTP Request Smuggling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Netty before 4.1.42.Final mishandles whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (such as a "Transfer-Encoding : chunked" line), which leads to HTTP request smuggling.

References (146)

Core 146
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00035.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3892
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3901
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4597
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/6
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0164
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0159
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0160
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0161
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0445
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00018.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00004.html
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9571
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4532-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0842
EPSS Percentile 94.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-444
Status published
Products (10)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
io.netty/netty-all 4.0.0.Alpha1 - 4.1.42.FinalMaven
netty/netty < 4.1.42
org.jboss.netty/netty 0Maven
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 7.2
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 7.3
redhat/jboss_enterprise_application_platform 7.4
Published Sep 26, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026