# CVE-2026-48480: netty-incubator-codec-ohttp OHttpVersionChunkDraft's Missing Final-Chunk Enforcement Leads to Undetected Stream Truncation

- Also known as: GHSA-R6FJ-869H-4F6Q
- Severity: CVSS 6.6 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.0.22.Final
- Published: 2026-06-04 · Updated: 2026-06-04

## Affected

- netty netty-incubator-codec-ohttp: fixed in 0.0.22.Final
- io.netty.incubator:netty-incubator-codec-ohttp (Maven): fixed in 0.0.22.Final

## Description

The netty incubator codec.bhttp is a java language binary http parser. Prior to version 0.0.22.FInal, the codec-ohttp implementation of draft-ietf-ohai-chunked-ohttp does not verify that a cryptographically-signed final chunk was received before the outer HTTP body terminates. An on-path adversary (the OHTTP relay itself, or any MITM on the relay↔gateway or relay↔client transport) can forward a prefix of a legitimate chunked-OHTTP message—cut at a non-final chunk boundary—and close the outer body cleanly, producing no decryption error and no exception in the receiving application. Version 0.0.22.Final fixes the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on netty netty-incubator-codec-ohttp, io.netty.incubator:netty-incubator-codec-ohttp, upgrade to a fixed version (0.0.22.Final) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/netty/netty-incubator-codec-ohttp/security/advisories/GHSA-r6fj-869h-4f6q
- https://github.com/netty/netty-incubator-codec-ohttp/commit/28f977f293591a4e837bd59ceb441f9f70349915

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