Impact: Important Public Date: 2019-09-26 CWE: CWE-444 Bugzilla: 1758619: CVE-2019-16869 netty: HTTP request smuggling by mishandled whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers 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.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-16869 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 7.5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Network |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | High |
| Availability Impact | None |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 | vertx | Affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | netty | Affected |
| Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 7 | netty | Affected |
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