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Description

Netty allows request-line validation to be bypassed when a `DefaultHttpRequest` or `DefaultFullHttpRequest` is created first and its URI is later changed via `setUri()`. The constructors reject CRLF and whitespace characters that would break the start-line, but `setUri()` does not apply the same validation. `HttpRequestEncoder` and `RtspEncoder` then write the URI into the request line verbatim. If attacker-controlled input reaches `setUri()`, this enables CRLF injection and insertion of additional HTTP or RTSP requests, leading to HTTP request smuggling or desynchronization on the HTTP side and request injection on the RTSP side. This issue is fixed in versions 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-20 | Published 2026-05-06 | Updated 2026-05-07 | Assigner GitHub_M




MEDIUM: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Problem types

CWE-93: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection')

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

Product status

>= 4.2.0.Alpha1, <= 4.2.12.Final
affected

<= 4.1.132.Final
affected

References

github.com/.../netty/security/advisories/GHSA-v8h7-rr48-vmmv exploit

github.com/.../netty/security/advisories/GHSA-v8h7-rr48-vmmv

cve.org (CVE-2026-41417)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-41417)

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