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CVE-2019-16869 (High) detected in netty-3.9.2.Final.jar, netty-3.9.0.Final.jar #1700

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CVE-2019-16869 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Libraries - netty-3.9.2.Final.jar, netty-3.9.0.Final.jar

netty-3.9.2.Final.jar

The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Library home page: http://netty.io/

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.ivy2/cache/io.netty/netty/bundles/netty-3.9.2.Final.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

  • swagger-async-httpclient_2.11-0.3.5.jar (Root Library)
    • async-http-client-1.8.14.jar
      • netty-3.9.2.Final.jar (Vulnerable Library)
netty-3.9.0.Final.jar

The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Library home page: http://netty.io/

Path to dependency file: /OPENAPI-REST-API/swagger-client/scala/pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/io/netty/netty/3.9.0.Final/netty-3.9.0.Final.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

  • jersey-ahc-client-1.0.5.jar (Root Library)
    • async-http-client-1.8.5.jar
      • netty-3.9.0.Final.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 1f70e2feccb7006c8d32cc7d4fe62f5cf5e5c34d

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

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.

Publish Date: 2019-09-26

URL: CVE-2019-16869

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics:

  • Exploitability Metrics:
    • Attack Vector: Network
    • Attack Complexity: Low
    • Privileges Required: None
    • User Interaction: None
    • Scope: Unchanged
  • Impact Metrics:
    • Confidentiality Impact: None
    • Integrity Impact: High
    • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16869

Release Date: 2019-09-26

Fix Resolution: io.netty:netty-all:4.1.42.Final,io.netty:netty-codec-http:4.1.42.Final


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