CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-16869

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Very high risk
8.42%

95th percentile - higher than 95% of all known CVEs

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can smuggle HTTP requests through a proxy or load balancer, potentially bypassing security controls, poisoning caches, or gaining unauthorized access to resources.

Recommendation

Update Netty to version 4.1.42.Final or later. Verify that proxies and load balancers in the infrastructure also handle HTTP headers according to the standard.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS