CVE-2019-16771: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

December 5, 2019 (updated May 14, 2024)

Versions of Armeria 0.85.0 through and including 0.96.0 are vulnerable to HTTP response splitting, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences when unsanitized data is used to populate the headers of an HTTP response. This vulnerability has been patched in 0.97.0. Potential impacts of this vulnerability include cross-user defacement, cache poisoning, Cross-site scripting (XSS), and page hijacking.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-24r8-fm9r-cpj2
github.com/line/armeria/commit/b597f7a865a527a84ee3d6937075cfbb4470ed20
github.com/line/armeria/security/advisories/GHSA-24r8-fm9r-cpj2
github.com/line/armeria/security/advisories/GHSA-35fr-h7jr-hh86
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16771

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