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