Spring Security Advisories

CVE-2019-16869: Reactor Netty Consumes a Vulnerable Version of Netty

HIGH | OCTOBER 28, 2019 | CVE-2019-16869

Description

Reactor Netty, versions 0.8.x prior to 0.8.13 and 0.9.x prior to 0.9.1, depends on vulnerable versions of netty (versions prior to 4.1.42), which incorrectly handles whitespace before a colon in headers, leading to HTTP request smuggling attacks.

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History

  • 2019-10-28: Initial vulnerability report published.

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