# CVE-2026-89044: Netty 4.1.133.Final through 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.13.Final through 4.2.17.Final HTTP Request Smuggling via Transfer-Encoding

- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.1.138.Final, 4.2.18.Final
- Published: 2026-09-10 · Updated: 2026-09-18

## Affected

- netty: from 4.1.133.Final, fixed in 4.1.138.Final; from 4.2.13.Final, fixed in 4.2.18.Final

## Description

Netty versions 4.1.133.Final through 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.13.Final through 4.2.17.Final fail to properly validate the final transfer coding in the Transfer-Encoding header, allowing attackers to smuggle requests by using malformed encoding declarations. Attackers can split Transfer-Encoding headers across multiple lines or use values like 'chunked, xchunked' to bypass validation and decode messages as chunked when the final coding is not chunked, enabling request smuggling attacks.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on netty, upgrade to a fixed version (4.1.138.Final, 4.2.18.Final) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-hcvj-94mj-jp5c
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/ca87393b0e9e13c493d213a268e727a6d44e1585
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/640d4d3324f7b811a4903d0730c8ccb35500500c
- https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/netty-4.1.137.Final/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpObjectDecoder.java#L866
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.138.Final
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.18.Final
- https://github.com/netty/netty
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netty-4.1.133-final-through-4.1.137-final-and-4.2.13-final-through-4.2.17-final-http-request-smuggling-via-transfer-encoding

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