CVE details
CVE-2026-50010
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, SimpleTrustManagerFactory.engineGetTrustManagers() and related paths wrap any user-supplied plain X509TrustManager in X509TrustManagerWrapper, which extends X509ExtendedTrustManager but implements the 3-arg checkServerTrusted(chain, authType, SSLEngine) by discarding the SSLEngine and calling the 2-arg delegate. Because the object now IS an X509ExtendedTrustManager, neither SunJSSE's internal AbstractTrustManagerWrapper nor Netty's own OpenSslX509TrustManagerWrapper will re-wrap it to add endpoint-identification. Consequently, even though Netty 4.2 sets endpointIdentificationAlgorithm="HTTPS" by default, a client built with `SslContextBuilder.forClient().trustManager(somePlainX509TrustManager)` performs no hostname verification at all. Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue.
Affected ports (1)
| Port | Package | Version | Status | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| java/netty | netty | 4.1.53_2 | unaddressed | glewis@FreeBSD.org |
Template for a VuXML entry
Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.
<vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
<topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
<affects>
<package>
<name>netty</name>
<range><lt>4.1.135</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol
servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final,
SimpleTrustManagerFactory.engineGetTrustManagers() and related paths
wrap any user-supplied plain X509TrustManager in
X509TrustManagerWrapper, which extends X509ExtendedTrustManager but
implements the 3-arg checkServerTrusted(chain, authType, SSLEngine) by
discarding the SSLEngine and calling the 2-arg delegate. Because the
object now IS an X509ExtendedTrustManager, neither SunJSSE's internal
AbstractTrustManagerWrapper nor Netty's own
OpenSslX509TrustManagerWrapper will re-wrap it to add
endpoint-identification. Consequently, even though Netty 4.2 sets
endpointIdentificationAlgorithm="HTTPS" by default, a client built
with
`SslContextBuilder.forClient().trustManager(somePlainX509TrustManager)`
performs no hostname verification at all. Versions 4.1.135.Final and
4.2.15.Final patch the issue.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2026-50010</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50010</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2026-06-12</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-25</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>