CVE-2021-21409

Summary

Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-http2) before version 4.1.61.Final there is a vulnerability that enables request smuggling. The content-length header is not correctly validated if the request only uses a single Http2HeaderFrame with the endStream set to to true. This could lead to request smuggling if the request is proxied to a remote peer and translated to HTTP/1.1. This is a followup of GHSA-wm47-8v5p-wjpj/CVE-2021-21295 which did miss to fix this one case. This was fixed as part of 4.1.61.Final.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
nettynetty< 4.1.61.Finalaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-444: CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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