CVE-2020-7238
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
Netty 4.1.43.Final allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 3.65%• Percentile: 89%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-444•Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
The product acts as an intermediary HTTP agent (such as a proxy or firewall) in the data flow between two entities such as a client and server, but it does not interpret malformed HTTP requests or responses in ways that are consistent with how the messages will be processed by those entities that are at the ultimate destination.
Affected Systems
- debian•netty
< 1:4.1.45-1 | < 1:4.1.45-1 | < 1:4.1.45-1 | < 1:4.1.45-1
- ubuntu•netty
< 1:3.2.6.Final-2+deb8u2build0.14.04.1~esm1 | all
- ubuntu•netty-3.9
< 3.9.0.Final-1ubuntu0.1
- debian•debian_linux
8.0 | 9.0 | 10.0
- fedoraproject•fedora
33
- io.netty•netty-handler
≥ 4.1.43, < 4.1.45
- netty•netty
4.1.43
- redhat•jboss_enterprise_application_platform
7.2 | 7.3 | 7.4
- redhat•jboss_enterprise_application_platform_text-only_advisories
na
- redhat•openshift_application_runtimes_text-only_advisories
na
References (30)
- https://netty.io/news/
- https://github.com/jdordonezn/CVE-2020-72381/issues/1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0497
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00018.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0601
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0606
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0605
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0567
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0806
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0811
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0804
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0805
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00003.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TS6VX7OMXPDJIU5LRGUAHRK6MENAVJ46/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4885
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc8d554aad889d12b140d9fd7d2d6fc2e8716e9792f6f4e4b2cdc2d05%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r131e572d003914843552fa45c4398b9903fb74144986e8b107c0a3a7%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7238
- https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9861
- https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/9865
- https://netty.io/news
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TS6VX7OMXPDJIU5LRGUAHRK6MENAVJ46
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc8d554aad889d12b140d9fd7d2d6fc2e8716e9792f6f4e4b2cdc2d05@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r131e572d003914843552fa45c4398b9903fb74144986e8b107c0a3a7@%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-7238
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-7238
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1796225
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4600-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7238