Advisory record · GHSA-38f8-5428-x5cv

Netty vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling due to malformed Transfer-Encoding

CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.0027 · 18th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 7 May 2026, 00:22 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
io.netty:netty-codec-httpMaven>=4.2.0.Alpha1, <4.2.13.Final || <4.1.133.Final4.2.13.Final, 4.1.133.Final
Identifiers
GHSA-38f8-5428-x5cv · CVE-2026-42585
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-444
Published
7 May 2026
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

This is the Maven package io.netty:netty-codec-http, affected in versions from 4.2.0.Alpha1 before 4.2.13.Final and in versions before 4.1.133.Final. Netty treats a request with "Transfer-Encoding: chunked, identity" as chunked, which violates RFC 9112 and can allow request smuggling when Netty sits behind a proxy that prefers Content-Length. An attacker able to send requests through such a proxy can inject additional HTTP requests. Upgrade to 4.2.13.Final or 4.1.133.Final.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0027, the 18th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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