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CVE-2019-20445 — Netty Netty security vulnerability

Critical CVSS 9.1

HttpObjectDecoder.java in Netty before 4.1.44 allows a Content-Length header to be accompanied by a second Content-Length header, or by a Transfer-Encoding header.

Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.1 (3.1)
Published
2020-01-29
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
java/maven
Weaknesses
CWE-444

Affected products

  • netty / netty
  • debian / debian_linux / 8.0
  • debian / debian_linux / 9.0
  • debian / debian_linux / 10.0
  • fedoraproject / fedora / 33
  • canonical / ubuntu_linux / 18.04

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Matched remediation archetype

HTTP request smuggling and message-boundary ambiguity

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Check exposure

  • Inventory every proxy, CDN, gateway, load balancer, service mesh, and application server hop on affected request paths.
  • Compare documented parsing and normalization behavior for message length, transfer coding, duplicate headers, and protocol translation.
  • Identify connection reuse and which downstream services trust headers added by intermediaries.

Remediate safely

  • Update affected intermediaries and origin servers and align them on a single standards-compliant request framing policy.
  • Reject ambiguous length, transfer-coding, duplicate, malformed, and unsupported framing before forwarding.
  • Normalize or remove hop-by-hop and identity headers at one controlled boundary and add multi-hop regression tests.

Authoritative sources

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