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Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for development of maintainable high performance protocol servers and clients. In versions 4.1.124.Final, and 4.2.0.Alpha3 through 4.2.4.Final, Netty incorrectly accepts standalone newline characters (LF) as a chunk-size line terminator, regardless of a preceding carriage return (CR), instead of requiring CRLF per HTTP/1.1 standards. When combined with reverse proxies that parse LF differently (treating it as part of the chunk extension), attackers can craft requests that the proxy sees as one request but Netty processes as two, enabling request smuggling attacks. This is fixed in versions 4.1.125.Final and 4.2.5.Final.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-08-22 | Published 2025-09-03 | Updated 2025-09-05 | Assigner GitHub_M




LOW: 2.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Problem types

CWE-444: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

Product status

>= 4.2.0.Alpha3, < 4.2.5.Final
affected

<= 4.1.124.Final, < 4.1.125.Final
affected

References

github.com/.../netty/security/advisories/GHSA-fghv-69vj-qj49

github.com/JLLeitschuh/unCVEed/issues/1

github.com/netty/netty/issues/15522

github.com/netty/netty/pull/15611

github.com/...ommit/edb55fd8e0a3bcbd85881e423464f585183d1284

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9112

w4ke.info/2025/06/18/funky-chunks.html

cve.org (CVE-2025-58056)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-58056)

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