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Red Hat JBossEAP: HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CVE-2019-16869)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CVE-2019-16869)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/26/2019
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

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(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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