Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests in Netty - CVE-2026-42584

 

Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests in Netty - CVE-2026-42584

Published: May 5, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU130205
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-42584
CWE-ID: CWE-444
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

Netty
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
Ubuntu
Development Tools Module
SUSE Package Hub 15
IBM SPSS Analytic Server
Jira Service Management Data Center
Crowd Data Center
Confluence Data Center
UCD - IBM UrbanCode Deploy
Jira Software Data Center
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus
Enterprise Build of Quarkus
DevOps Deploy
Rational Performance Tester
DevOps Test Performance
IBM DB2
netty-tcnative
netty-tcnative-debugsource
netty (Ubuntu package)
netty
netty-javadoc

How to mitigate CVE-2026-42584

Install security update from vendor's website.

Netty - addressed in versions 4.1.133, 4.2.13
Enterprise Build of Quarkus - update to 3.27.4
Jira Service Management Data Center - addressed in versions 10.3.22, 11.3.7
Crowd Data Center - update to 7.2.1
Confluence Data Center - addressed in versions 9.2.21, 10.2.13
UCD - IBM UrbanCode Deploy - addressed in versions 7.2.3.24, 7.3.2.19
DevOps Deploy - addressed in versions 8.0.1.14, 8.1.2.7, 8.2.2.0
Jira Software Data Center - addressed in versions 9.12.28, 10.3.22, 11.3.7
DevOps Test Performance - update to 11.0.8
netty-tcnative - update to 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1
netty-tcnative-debugsource - update to 2.0.77-150200.3.39.1
netty (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 1:3.2.6.Final-2+deb8u2ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1:4.0.34-1ubuntu0.1~esm4, 1:4.1.7-4ubuntu0.1+esm6, 1:4.1.45-1ubuntu0.1~esm6, 1:4.1.48-4+deb11u2ubuntu0.1+esm3, 1:4.1.48-9ubuntu0.1+esm3, 1:4.1.48-16ubuntu0.1~esm2
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces - update to 3.28.2
Red Hat Integration Camel Extensions for Quarkus - update to 3.33.2
netty - update to 4.1.133-150200.4.46.1
netty-javadoc - update to 4.1.133-150200.4.46.1

External References

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