Vulnerabilities / CVE-2026-42581

critical

CVE-2026-42581

netty: io.netty/netty-codec-http: Netty: HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper handling of conflicting HTTP/1.0 headers

Published Modified CWE 444
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Red Hat7.2CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high), GHSA (medium), Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
chainguardakhq, apache-activemq-artemis, apache-camel-karavan-devmode and 97 more0.27.1-r1 and 86 more
debian 11nettyno fix listed
debian 12nettyno fix listed
debian 13nettyno fix listed
debian 14nettyno fix listed
echonettyno fix listed
echo maven::Echo OSVio.netty:netty-codec-http4.1.133.Final
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenio.netty:netty-codec-http4.2.13.Final, 4.1.133.Final
minimosapache-activemq-artemis, apache-druid, apache-druid-fips and 46 more2.55.0-r0 and 36 more
rapidfort debian 12nettyno fix listed
rapidfort debian 13nettyno fix listed
seal maven::Seal Security Databasecom.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-bundle, com.couchbase.client:core-io, io.netty:netty-codec-http and 10 more1.12.781+sp999, 1.12.792+sp999 and 9 more
Show all 206 entries from 19 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
chainguardakhq0.27.1-r1
chainguardapache-activemq-artemis2.54.0-r2
chainguardapache-camel-karavan-devmode4.18.1-r1
chainguardapache-nifi2.9.0-r6
chainguardapache-nifi-registry2.9.0-r8
chainguardapache-pulsar-4.04.0.10-r1
chainguardapache-pulsar-4.14.1.3-r15
chainguardapache-pulsar-4.24.2.1-r2
chainguardapache-pulsar-fips-4.04.0.9-r16
chainguardapache-pulsar-fips-4.24.2.1-r3
chainguardapicurio-registry3.2.1-r3
chainguardcamunda-8.88.8.24-r1
chainguardcamunda-8.98.9.5-r2
chainguardcamunda-zeebe-8.68.6.39-r6
chainguardcamunda-zeebe-8.78.7.29-r1
chainguardcamunda-zeebe-8.88.8.24-r1
chainguardcamunda-zeebe-8.98.9.5-r2
chainguardceleborn-0.50.5.4-r26
chainguardceleborn-0.60.6.3-r7
chainguardceleborn-0.70.7.0-r3
chainguardcommercial-elasticsearch-8.198.19.16-r0
chainguardcommercial-elasticsearch-9.39.3.5-r0
chainguardcommercial-elasticsearch-9.49.4.1-r0
chainguarddocker-selenium4.43.0.20260404-r2
chainguarddruid37.0.0-r1
chainguardelasticsearch-8.198.19.15-r1
chainguardelasticsearch-9.19.1.10-r5
chainguardelasticsearch-9.29.2.8-r3
chainguardelasticsearch-9.39.3.4-r1
chainguardelasticsearch-9.49.4.1-r0
chainguardelasticsearch-fips-8.198.19.15-r1
chainguardelasticsearch-fips-9.19.1.10-r12
chainguardelasticsearch-fips-9.29.2.8-r1
chainguardelasticsearch-fips-9.39.3.4-r1
chainguardelasticsearch-fips-9.49.4.1-r0
chainguardflyway12.9.0-r0
chainguardflyway-fips12.5.0-r1
chainguardgrpc-java-fips-1.56.01.56.0-r6
chainguardhadoop-fips-3.53.5.0-r12
chainguardhono2.7.0-r14
chainguardinfinispan-16.116.1.3-r2
chainguardkafbat-ui1.4.2-r10
chainguardkafbat-ui-fips1.4.2-r9
chainguardkafka-bridge1.0.0-r4
chainguardkayenta-2025.22025.2.4-r6
chainguardkayenta-2025.42025.4.3-r8
chainguardkayenta-2026.02026.0.2-r8
chainguardkayenta-2026.12026.1.0-r1
chainguardkayenta-fips-2025.22025.2.4-r7
chainguardkayenta-fips-2025.42025.4.3-r9
chainguardkayenta-fips-2026.02026.0.2-r9
chainguardkayenta-fips-2026.12026.1.0-r1
chainguardkeycloak-26.626.6.1-r2
chainguardkeycloak-fips-26.526.5.7-r10
chainguardkeycloak-fips-26.626.6.1-r3
chainguardknative-kafka-broker-1.201.20.3-r6
chainguardknative-kafka-broker-1.211.21.4-r2
chainguardknative-kafka-broker-1.221.22.1-r1
chainguardknative-kafka-broker-fips-1.201.20.3-r6
chainguardknative-kafka-broker-fips-1.221.22.1-r1
chainguardkserve-modelmesh0.12.0-r33
chainguardlocalstack4.14.0-r10
chainguardlogstash-8.198.19.15-r1
chainguardlogstash-9.09.0.8-r23
chainguardlogstash-9.19.1.10-r8
chainguardlogstash-9.29.2.8-r4
chainguardlogstash-9.39.3.4-r4
chainguardmanagement-api-for-apache-cassandra-4.00.1.117-r1
chainguardmanagement-api-for-apache-cassandra-4.10.1.117-r1
chainguardmanagement-api-for-apache-cassandra-5.00.1.117-r1
chainguardneo4j-2026.012026.01.4-r1
chainguardneo4j-2026.022026.02.3-r4
chainguardneo4j-2026.032026.03.1-r4
chainguardneo4j-2026.042026.04.0-r3
chainguardneo4j-5.265.26.25-r2
chainguardnuxeo-20232023.40-r4
chainguardopensearch-22.19.4-r14
chainguardopensearch-33.8.0-r3
chainguardopensearch-fips-33.7.0-r0
chainguardpinot-fips1.5.0-r2
chainguardreposilite3.5.28-r3
chainguardseata2.6.0-r9
chainguardselenium4.44.0-r0
chainguardsonarqube26.7.0.124771-r0
chainguardspark-3.53.5.8-r13
chainguardspark-4.04.0.2-r12
chainguardspark-4.14.1.2-r1
chainguardspark-fips-3.53.5.8-r1
chainguardspark-fips-4.14.1.1-r14
chainguardspark-kubernetes-operator0.9.0-r0
chainguardspark-kubernetes-operator-fips0.9.0-r0
chainguardstrimzi-kafka-operator0.51.0-r25
chainguardstrimzi-kafka-operator-fips1.0.0-r0
chainguardtez0.10.5-r12
chainguardthingsboard4.3.1.1-r5
chainguardtinkerpop3.8.1-r2
chainguardtrino481-r0
chainguardwavefront-proxy13.9-r13
chainguardwazuh-indexer4.14.5-r0
chainguardzipkin3.6.1-r6
debian 11nettyno fix listed
debian 12nettyno fix listed
debian 13nettyno fix listed
debian 14nettyno fix listed
echonettyno fix listed
echo maven::Echo OSVio.netty:netty-codec-http4.1.133.Final
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenio.netty:netty-codec-http4.2.13.Final, 4.1.133.Final
minimosapache-activemq-artemis2.55.0-r0
minimosapache-druid38.0.0-r0
minimosapache-druid-fips38.0.0-r0
minimosapache-nifi2.10.0-r0
minimosapache-nifi-registry2.10.0-r0
minimosapache-polaris1.6.0-r0
minimosapache-polaris-fips1.6.0-r0
minimosapicurio-registry3.2.5-r0
minimosapicurio-registry-fips3.3.1-r0
minimoscamunda-8.88.8.25-r0
minimoscdc-apache-cassandra-5.02.3.9-r0
minimoscloudwatch-exporter0.17.0-r0
minimosconductor3.32.1-r0
minimosconductor-fips3.32.1-r0
minimoselasticsearch-8.198.19.16-r0
minimoselasticsearch-9.39.3.5-r0
minimoselasticsearch-9.49.4.1-r0
minimoselasticsearch-fips-8.198.19.16-r0
minimoselasticsearch-fips-9.39.3.5-r0
minimoskeycloak26.6.3-r0
minimoskeycloak-fips26.6.3-r0
minimosknative-kafka-broker-dispatcher-loom-1.221.22.2-r0
minimosknative-kafka-broker-dispatcher-loom-fips-1.221.22.2-r0
minimosknative-kafka-broker-receiver-loom-1.211.21.4-r1
minimosknative-kafka-broker-receiver-loom-1.221.22.2-r0
minimosknative-kafka-broker-receiver-loom-fips-1.221.22.2-r0
minimoslinstor-server1.35.0-r0
minimoslinstor-server-fips1.35.0-r0
minimoslogstash-8.188.18.8-r7
minimoslogstash-8.198.19.15-r1
minimoslogstash-9.09.0.8-r8
minimoslogstash-9.19.1.10-r1
minimoslogstash-9.29.2.8-r1
minimoslogstash-9.39.3.4-r1
minimoslogstash-input-http4.1.8-r0
minimosmongodb-search0_git20260421-r2
minimosmongodb-search-fips0_git20260627-r0
minimosneo4j-5.265.26.26-r0
minimosopensearch-22.19.6-r2
minimosopensearch-33.7.0-r0
minimossonarqube26.7.0.124771-r0
minimosstargate2.0.51-r2
minimosstrimzi-kafka-bridge1.0.0-r1
minimosstrimzi-kafka-bridge-fips1.1.0-r0
minimosstrimzi-kafka-operator1.0.1-r3
minimosstrimzi-kafka-operator-0.450.45.2-r6
minimosstrimzi-kafka-operator-fips1.0.1-r1
minimostrino481-r2
minimostrino-fips481-r2
rapidfort debian 12nettyno fix listed
rapidfort debian 13nettyno fix listed
seal maven::Seal Security Databasecom.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-bundle1.12.781+sp999, 1.12.792+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databasecom.couchbase.client:core-io3.8.0+sp5, 3.9.0+sp2
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseio.netty:netty-codec-http4.1.115.Final+sp4, 4.1.118.Final+sp4, 4.1.119.Final+sp4, 4.1.126.Final+sp2, 4.1.128.Final+sp2, 4.1.97.Final+sp3
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseorg.apache.arrow:flight-sql-jdbc-driver18.3.0+sp2
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp1.com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-bundle1.12.781+sp999, 1.12.792+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp1.com.couchbase.client:core-io3.8.0+sp999, 3.9.0+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp1.io.netty:netty-codec-http4.1.115.Final+sp999, 4.1.118.Final+sp999, 4.1.119.Final+sp999, 4.1.126.Final+sp999, 4.1.128.Final+sp999, 4.1.97.Final+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp1.org.apache.arrow:flight-sql-jdbc-driver18.3.0+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp2.com.couchbase.client:core-io3.8.0+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp2.io.netty:netty-codec-http4.1.115.Final+sp999, 4.1.118.Final+sp999, 4.1.119.Final+sp999, 4.1.97.Final+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp3.com.couchbase.client:core-io3.8.0+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp3.io.netty:netty-codec-http4.1.115.Final+sp999, 4.1.118.Final+sp999, 4.1.119.Final+sp999
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp4.com.couchbase.client:core-io3.8.0+sp999
ubuntu 18.04-ESMnetty1:4.1.7-4ubuntu0.1+esm6
ubuntu 20.04-ESMnetty1:4.1.45-1ubuntu0.1~esm6
ubuntu 22.04nettyno fix listed
ubuntu 24.04nettyno fix listed
ubuntu 26.04nettyno fix listed
ubuntu 26.10nettyno fix listed
wolfiakhq0.27.1-r1
wolfiapache-activemq-artemis2.54.0-r2
wolfiapache-nifi2.9.0-r6
wolfiapache-nifi-registry2.9.0-r8
wolfiapache-pulsar-4.14.1.3-r15
wolfiapache-pulsar-4.24.2.1-r2
wolfiapicurio-registry3.2.1-r3
wolficeleborn-0.60.6.3-r7
wolfidocker-selenium4.43.0.20260404-r2
wolfidruid37.0.0-r1
wolfiflyway12.9.0-r0
wolfiinfinispan-16.116.1.3-r2
wolfikeycloak-26.626.6.1-r2
wolfikserve-modelmesh0.12.0-r33
wolfilogstash-9.39.3.4-r4
wolfimanagement-api-for-apache-cassandra-5.00.1.117-r1
wolfineo4j-2026.012026.01.4-r1
wolfiopensearch-22.19.4-r14
wolfiopensearch-33.8.0-r3
wolfiselenium4.44.0-r0
wolfisonarqube26.7.0.124771-r0
wolfispark-4.04.0.2-r12
wolfispark-4.14.1.2-r1
wolfistrimzi-kafka-operator0.51.0-r25
wolfitez0.10.5-r12
wolfithingsboard4.3.1.1-r5
wolfitrino481-r0
wolfiwavefront-proxy13.9-r13
wolfizipkin3.6.1-r6

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