Vulnerability

CVE-2019-16869

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CVSS Score 7.5 high

CVSS Vector

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

CWE

CWE-444

References

https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9571
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2019-16869

[CVE-2019-16869] CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')

Description

Netty before 4.1.42.Final mishandles whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (such as a "Transfer-Encoding : chunked" line), which leads to HTTP request smuggling.

See io.netty/netty package information