CVE-2021-43797

MEDIUM

Netty <4.1.71.Final - HTTP Request Smuggling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. Netty prior to version 4.1.71.Final skips control chars when they are present at the beginning / end of the header name. It should instead fail fast as these are not allowed by the spec and could lead to HTTP request smuggling. Failing to do the validation might cause netty to "sanitize" header names before it forward these to another remote system when used as proxy. This remote system can't see the invalid usage anymore, and therefore does not do the validation itself. Users should upgrade to version 4.1.71.Final.

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0038
EPSS Percentile 59.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-444
Status published
Products (25)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
io.netty/netty 0Maven
io.netty/netty-codec-http 4.0.0 - 4.1.71.FinalMaven
netapp/oncommand_workflow_automation
netapp/snapcenter
netty/netty < 4.1.71
oracle/banking_deposits_and_lines_of_credit_servicing 2.7
oracle/banking_party_management 2.7.0
oracle/banking_platform 2.6.2
... and 15 more
Published Dec 09, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026