CVE-2026-42581 - Vulnerability details

9.8/10

CVSS 3.1

CVE-2026-42581

resolved Published 2026-05-13 Updated 2026-09-18

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Vulnerability Data from Dependency-Track

Affected versions

5.7

5.7.2 5.7.1 5.7.0

5.6

5.6.1 5.6.0

5.5

5.5.19 5.5.18 5.5.17 5.5.16 5.5.15 5.5.14 5.5.13 5.5.12 5.5.11 5.5.10 5.5.9 5.5.8 5.5.7 5.5.6 5.5.5 5.5.4 5.5.3 5.5.2 5.5.1 5.5.0

5.4

5.4.13 5.4.12 5.4.11 5.4.10 5.4.9 5.4.8 5.4.7 5.4.6 5.4.5 5.4.4 5.4.3 5.4.2 5.4.1 5.4.0

Fixed in versions 5.7.3 and 5.6.2 No fix yet in 5.5, 5.4

Score

9.8 CVSS 3.1 NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, HttpObjectDecoder strips a conflicting Content-Length header when a request carries both Transfer-Encoding: chunked and Content-Length, but only for HTTP/1.1 messages. The guard is absent for HTTP/1.0. An attacker that sends an HTTP/1.0 request with both headers causes Netty to decode the body as chunked while leaving Content-Length intact in the forwarded HttpMessage. Any downstream proxy or handler that trusts Content-Length over Transfer-Encoding will disagree on message boundaries, enabling request smuggling. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

Same vulnerability as

GHSA-xxqh-mfjm-7mv9 resolved according to EUVD-2026-30124

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