CVE-2026-89044: medium-severity vulnerability in netty
Netty 4.1.133.Final through 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.13.Final through 4.2.17.Final HTTP Request Smuggling via Transfer-Encoding
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.9epss 0.3%
Netty versions 4.1.133.Final through 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.13.Final through 4.2.17.Final fail to properly validate the final transfer coding in the Transfer-Encoding header, allowing attackers to smuggle requests by using malformed encoding declarations. Attackers can split Transfer-Encoding headers across multiple lines or use values like 'chunked, xchunked' to bypass validation and decode messages as chunked when the final coding is not chunked, enabling request smuggling attacks.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
netty · nettyRelated CVEs — netty
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References
https://github.com/netty/nettyhttps://github.com/netty/netty/blob/netty-4.1.137.Final/codec-http/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/codec/http/HttpObjectDecoder.java#L866https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/640d4d3324f7b811a4903d0730c8ccb35500500chttps://github.com/netty/netty/commit/ca87393b0e9e13c493d213a268e727a6d44e1585https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.138.Finalhttps://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.18.Finalhttps://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-hcvj-94mj-jp5chttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netty-4.1.133-final-through-4.1.137-final-and-4.2.13-final-through-4.2.17-final-http-request-smuggling-via-transfer-encoding