CVE-2020-7238
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-01-27 16:43Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 09:25Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-01-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-444Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 87364d0cb4429bc3282c52a8d12d22a382779014b3d81bb3c202b8fc2163d5a8
05 Affected products
06 References
- netty.iohttps://netty.io/news/
- github.comhttps://github.com/jdordonezn/CVE-2020-72381/issues/1
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0497https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0497
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200219 [SECURITY] [DLA 2109-1] netty security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00017.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200219 [SECURITY] [DLA 2110-1] netty-3.9 security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00018.html
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0601https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0601
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0606https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0606
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0605https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0605
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0567https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0567
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0806https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0806
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0811https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0811
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0804https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0804
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2020:0805https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0805
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200904 [SECURITY] [DLA 2364-1] netty security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00003.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-66b5f85ccchttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TS6VX7OMXPDJIU5LRGUAHRK6MENAVJ46/
- www.debian.orgDSA-4885https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4885
- lists.apache.org[cassandra-commits] 20210526 [jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-16699) Security vulnerability CVE-2020-7238 for Nettyhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc8d554aad889d12b140d9fd7d2d6fc2e8716e9792f6f4e4b2cdc2d05%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- lists.apache.org[cassandra-commits] 20210526 [jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-16699) Security vulnerability CVE-2020-7238 for Nettyhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r131e572d003914843552fa45c4398b9903fb74144986e8b107c0a3a7%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- netty Fixed in 1:4.1.45-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- netty Fixed in 1:4.1.45-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- netty Fixed in 1:4.1.45-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- netty-3.9 Fixed in 3.9.0.Final-1ubuntu0.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- netty Fixed in 1:3.2.6.Final-2+deb8u2build0.14.04.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS
- netty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS
- netty No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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