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CVE-2026-50020: Netty: HttpObjectDecoder skips arbitrary initial control characters when only initial CRLF characters are permitted

June 15, 2026

Before reading the first request-line, HttpObjectDecoder skips every byte for which Character.isISOControl(b) is true (0x00–0x1F and 0x7F) as well as all whitespace. RFC 9112 §2.2 only asks servers to ignore empty CRLF lines preceding the request-line — a carefully scoped robustness allowance intended to handle HTTP/1.0 POST workarounds. Silently absorbing NUL bytes, SOH, STX, and other non-CRLF control characters goes significantly beyond this, and can be exploited for request-boundary confusion in pipelined or multiplexed transports where a front-end component treats those bytes differently.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-hvcg-qmg6-jm4c
  • github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final
  • github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final
  • github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-hvcg-qmg6-jm4c
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50020

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Affected versions

All versions before 4.1.135, all versions starting from 4.2.0 before 4.2.15

Fixed versions

  • 4.1.135
  • 4.2.15

Solution

Upgrade to versions 4.1.135, 4.2.15 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

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

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Weakness

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

Source file

maven/io.netty/netty-codec-http/CVE-2026-50020.yml

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