CVE-2025-67735: Netty has a CRLF Injection vulnerability in io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestEncoder

December 15, 2025 (updated December 20, 2025)

The io.netty.handler.codec.http.HttpRequestEncoder CRLF injection with the request uri when constructing a request. This leads to request smuggling when HttpRequestEncoder is used without proper sanitization of the uri.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-84h7-rjj3-6jx4
github.com/netty/netty
github.com/netty/netty/commit/77e81f1e5944d98b3acf887d3aa443b252752e94
github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-84h7-rjj3-6jx4
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-67735

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