CVE-2021-43797

medium

Description

Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. Netty prior to version 4.1.71.Final skips control chars when they are present at the beginning / end of the header name. It should instead fail fast as these are not allowed by the spec and could lead to HTTP request smuggling. Failing to do the validation might cause netty to "sanitize" header names before it forward these to another remote system when used as proxy. This remote system can't see the invalid usage anymore, and therefore does not do the validation itself. Users should upgrade to version 4.1.71.Final.

References

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-july-2022-critical-patch-update-addresses-188-cves

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5316

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220107-0003/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00008.html

https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-wx5j-54mm-rqqq

https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/07aa6b5938a8b6ed7a6586e066400e2643897323

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-12-09

Updated: 2023-02-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium