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CVE-2026-42580GHSA-M4CV-J2PX-7723

Netty: HTTP Request Smuggling due to incorrect chunk size parsing

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.2.13.Final, 4.1.133.Final
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, Netty's chunk size parser silently overflows int, enabling request smuggling attacks. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • netty netty

    From 4.2.0.Alpha1 · fixed in 4.2.13.Final; fixed in 4.1.133.Final

  • io.netty netty-codec-http

    From 4.2.0.Alpha1 · fixed in 4.2.13.Final; fixed in 4.1.133.Final

  • io.netty:netty-codec-httpMaven

    From 4.2.0.Alpha1 · fixed in 4.2.13.Final

  • io.netty:netty-codec-httpMaven

    fixed in 4.1.133.Final

References 1

GitHub · netty/netty