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Red Hat JBossEAP: HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CVE-2021-21409)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CVE-2021-21409)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/30/2021
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

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(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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