SB2026072228 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.28
Published: July 22, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 7 vulnerabilities.
1) HTTP response splitting (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-42578)
CWE-ID: CWE-113 - Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Response Splitting')
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into CONNECT proxy requests.
The vulnerability exists due to improper neutralization of CRLF sequences in HTTP headers in io.netty.handler.proxy.HttpProxyHandler newInitialMessage() when handling user-influenced outbound headers. A remote attacker can supply crafted header values containing CRLF sequences to inject arbitrary HTTP headers into CONNECT proxy requests.
Exploitation requires an application to use HttpProxyHandler with user-influenced outboundHeaders without performing its own CRLF sanitization.
2) Null Byte Interaction Error (Poison Null Byte) (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-42579)
CWE-ID: CWE-626 - Null Byte Interaction Error (Poison Null Byte)
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass domain validation and poison DNS caches.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in io.netty.handler.codec.dns.DnsCodecUtil encodeDomainName() when encoding user-influenced domain names. A remote attacker can supply a crafted domain name containing null bytes, overlength labels, or empty labels to bypass domain validation and poison DNS caches.
The issue affects the encoder path and relies on applications using user-influenced hostnames to construct DNS queries.
3) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-42581)
CWE-ID: CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform request smuggling.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in HttpObjectDecoder when processing HTTP/1.0 requests containing both Transfer-Encoding: chunked and Content-Length headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP/1.0 request to perform request smuggling.
Exploitation requires Netty to be deployed behind a downstream proxy or handler that trusts Content-Length over Transfer-Encoding.
4) Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-42584)
CWE-ID: CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to disrupt HTTP parsing integrity and availability on the connection.
The vulnerability exists due to inconsistent interpretation of HTTP responses in HttpClientCodec when processing pipelined HTTP/1.1 responses that include a 1xx response before a GET response body and a subsequent HEAD response. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted sequence of HTTP responses to disrupt HTTP parsing integrity and availability on the connection.
Exploitation requires HTTP/1.1 pipelining, a HEAD request in the pipeline, and a server response sequence that includes a 1xx response.
5) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-42587)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption in HttpContentDecompressor and DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener when processing compressed HTTP request bodies with Content-Encoding set to br, zstd, or snappy. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted compressed payload to cause a denial of service.
The configured maxAllocation limit is enforced for gzip and deflate, but is silently ignored for brotli, zstd, and snappy. The issue affects both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 handling.
6) Improper Authentication (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-43512)
CWE-ID: CWE-287 - Improper Authentication
CVSSv4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to authenticate as an unknown user.
The vulnerability exists due to improper authentication in the DIGEST authenticator when processing authentication for users not known to the configured Realm. A remote attacker can submit the password "null" for an unknown user to authenticate as an unknown user.
This occurs only when DIGEST authentication is configured.
7) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-6321)
CWE-ID: CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass path-based policy checks.
The vulnerability exists due to path traversal in the normalize() and equal() functions when processing percent-encoded path separators and dot segments in attacker-controlled URLs. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted URL to bypass path-based policy checks.
Applications that normalize or compare attacker-controlled URLs to enforce path-based policy are affected.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.