Advisory details:
github_osv / GHSA-f256-j965-7f32
| Advisory ID | github_osv/GHSA-f256-j965-7f32 |
| Aliases |
CVE-2021-21409
|
| Summary | Possible request smuggling in HTTP/2 due missing validation of content-length ### Impact The content-length header is not correctly validated if the request only use a single Http2HeaderFrame with the endStream set to to true. This could lead to request smuggling if the request is proxied to a remote peer and translated to HTTP/1.1 This is a followup of https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-wm47-8v5p-wjpj which did miss to fix this one case. ### Patches This was fixed as part of 4.1.61.Final ### Workarounds Validation can be done by the user before proxy the request by validating the header. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 5.3 |
| Risk | 2.6 |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches | Package Commit Patches Details |
| System | Score | Found at |
|---|---|---|
| cvssv3.1 | 5.9 | https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/03/GHSA-f256-j965-7f32/GHSA-f256-j965-7f32.json |
| generic_textual | MODERATE |
No EPSS data available for this advisory.
| Patch URL | |
|---|---|
| There are no known patches. | |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
There are no SSVC decisions available.