vulnerability

Red Hat JBoss EAP: CVE-2021-21409: HTTP Request/Response Smuggling

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 30, 2021
Added
Sep 19, 2024
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-http2) before version 4.1.61.Final there is a vulnerability that enables request smuggling. The content-length header is not correctly validated if the request only uses a single Http2HeaderFrame with the endStream set to to true. This could lead to request smuggling if the request is proxied to a remote peer and translated to HTTP/1.1. This is a followup of GHSA-wm47-8v5p-wjpj/CVE-2021-21295 which did miss to fix this one case. This was fixed as part of 4.1.61.Final.. A flaw was found in Netty. There is an issue where the content-length header is not validated correctly if the request uses a single Http2HeaderFrame with the endstream set to true. This flaw leads to request smuggling if the request is proxied to a remote peer and translated to HTTP/1.1. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity.

Solution

red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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