CVE-2026-42581 PUBLISHED

Netty: HTTP/1.0 TE+CL Coexistence Bypasses Smuggling Sanitization

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 28.04.2026 Published: 13.05.2026 Updated: 13.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.8

Product Status

Vendor netty
Product netty
Versions
  • Version >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final is affected
  • Version < 4.1.133.Final is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') CWE