Description
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, HttpObjectDecoder strips a conflicting Content-Length header when a request carries both Transfer-Encoding: chunked and Content-Length, but only for HTTP/1.1 messages. The guard is absent for HTTP/1.0. An attacker that sends an HTTP/1.0 request with both headers causes Netty to decode the body as chunked while leaving Content-Length intact in the forwarded HttpMessage. Any downstream proxy or handler that trusts Content-Length over Transfer-Encoding will disagree on message boundaries, enabling request smuggling. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.
References
- www.cve.org/CVERecord ↗
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42581 ↗
- github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xxqh-mfjm-7mv9 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:23808 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24502 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25123 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28010 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36820 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37390 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42644 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:49700 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:49701 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53644 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53645 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53646 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54435 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65126 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66488 ↗
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66545 ↗
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42581 ↗
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi ↗
- security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42581.json ↗
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