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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2026-42585
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2026-42585
Aliases
Summary Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, Netty incorrectly parses malformed Transfer-Encoding, enabling request smuggling attacks. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 6.5
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
GHSA-38f8-5428-x5cv Other https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-38f8-5428-x5cv
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-15T20:33:59Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:P/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-15T20:33:59Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/42xxx/CVE-2026-42585.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-42585

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'poc'},
 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]