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CVE-2021-21295

Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-http2) before version 4.1.60.Final there is a vulnerability that enables request smuggling. If a Content-Length header is present in the original HTTP/2 request, the field is not validated by `Http2MultiplexHandler` as it is propagated up. This is fine as long as the request is not proxied through as HTTP/1.1. If the request comes in as an HTTP/2 stream, gets converted into the HTTP/1.1 domain objects (`HttpRequest`, `HttpContent`, etc.) via `Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec `and then sent up to the child channel's pipeline and proxied through a remote peer as HTTP/1.1 this may result in request smuggling. In a proxy case, users may assume the content-length is validated somehow, which is not the case. If the request is forwarded to a backend channel that is a HTTP/1.1 connection, the Content-Length now has meaning and needs to be checked. An attacker can smuggle requests inside the body as it gets downgraded from HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1. For an example attack refer to the linked GitHub Advisory. Users are only affected if all of this is true: `HTTP2MultiplexCodec` or `Http2FrameCodec` is used, `Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec` is used to convert to HTTP/1.1 objects, and these HTTP/1.1 objects are forwarded to another remote peer. This has been patched in 4.1.60.Final As a workaround, the user can do the validation by themselves by implementing a custom `ChannelInboundHandler` that is put in the `ChannelPipeline` behind `Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec`.

Score
5.9 medium
Published
2021-03-09
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (1)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
java/nettynetty4.1.53_2unaddressedglewis@FreeBSD.org

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  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>netty</name>
	<range><lt>4.1.60</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application
	framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance
	protocol servers & clients. In Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-http2)
	before version 4.1.60.Final there is a vulnerability that enables
	request smuggling. If a Content-Length header is present in the
	original HTTP/2 request, the field is not validated by
	`Http2MultiplexHandler` as it is propagated up. This is fine as long
	as the request is not proxied through as HTTP/1.1. If the request
	comes in as an HTTP/2 stream, gets converted into the HTTP/1.1 domain
	objects (`HttpRequest`, `HttpContent`, etc.) via
	`Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec `and then sent up to the child
	channel's pipeline and proxied through a remote peer as HTTP/1.1 this
	may result in request smuggling. In a proxy case, users may assume the
	content-length is validated somehow, which is not the case. If the
	request is forwarded to a backend channel that is a HTTP/1.1
	connection, the Content-Length now has meaning and needs to be
	checked. An attacker can smuggle requests inside the body as it gets
	downgraded from HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1. For an example attack refer to the
	linked GitHub Advisory. Users are only affected if all of this is
	true: `HTTP2MultiplexCodec` or `Http2FrameCodec` is used,
	`Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec` is used to convert to HTTP/1.1
	objects, and these HTTP/1.1 objects are forwarded to another remote
	peer. This has been patched in 4.1.60.Final As a workaround, the user
	can do the validation by themselves by implementing a custom
	`ChannelInboundHandler` that is put in the `ChannelPipeline` behind
	`Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec`.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2021-21295</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21295</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2021-03-09</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>