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CVE-2026-42584GHSA-57RV-R2G8-2CJ3

Netty: HttpClientCodec response desynchronization

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, HttpClientCodec pairs each inbound response with an outbound request by queue.poll() once per response, including for 1xx. If the client pipelines GET then HEAD and the server sends 103, then 200 with GET body, then 200 for HEAD, the queue pairs HEAD with the first 200. The HEAD rule then skips reading that message’s body, so the GET entity bytes stay on the stream and the following 200 is parsed from the wrong offset. 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