vulnerability
Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2019-16869: HTTP Request/Response Smuggling
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | Sep 26, 2019 | Sep 19, 2024 | Jul 2, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 26, 2019
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Jul 2, 2025
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.. A flaw was found in Netty, where whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers is mishandled. This flaw allows an attacker to cause HTTP request smuggling.
Solution
red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest
References
- CWE-444
- CVE-2019-16869
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2019-16869
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-16869
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1758619
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0159
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0160
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0161
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0164
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