CVE-2026-50020
Essential information
- Published
- 12/06/2026 18:16
- Modified
- 12/06/2026 17:16
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-444
- EPSS (First)
- P11.8% EPSS percentile: rank of this vulnerability versus all others. Higher percentile = more likely to be exploited. Learn more (score 0.00038)
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N—
CVSS metrics
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Attack vector
- NETWORK
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- NONE
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- NONE
- Integrity impact
- LOW
- Availability impact
- NONE
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- Confidentiality (V)
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- Confidentiality (S)
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- Integrity (V)
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- Integrity (S)
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Description
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, before reading the first request-line, `HttpObjectDecoder` skips every byte for which `Character.isISOControl(b)` is `true` (0x00–0x1F and 0x7F) as well as all whitespace. RFC 9112 §2.2 only asks servers to ignore empty CRLF lines preceding the request-line — a carefully scoped robustness allowance intended to handle HTTP/1.0 POST workarounds. Silently absorbing NUL bytes, SOH, STX, and other non-CRLF control characters goes significantly beyond this, and can be exploited for request-boundary confusion in pipelined or multiplexed transports where a front-end component treats those bytes differently. Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue.
NVD status
- Status
- Undergoing Analysis — CVE has been marked for Analysis. Normally once in this state the CVE will be analyzed by NVD staff within 24 hours.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| netty / netty | cpe:2.3:a:netty:netty:<4.1.135.Final:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netty / netty | cpe:2.3:a:netty:netty:<4.2.15.Final:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |