CVE-2021-43797

Summary

CVECVE-2021-43797
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-09 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-24 15:47:00 UTC
DescriptionNetty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. Netty prior to version 4.1.71.Final skips control chars when they are present at the beginning / end of the header name. It should instead fail fast as these are not allowed by the spec and could lead to HTTP request smuggling. Failing to do the validation might cause netty to "sanitize" header names before it forward these to another remote system when used as proxy. This remote system can't see the invalid usage anymore, and therefore does not do the validation itself. Users should upgrade to version 4.1.71.Final.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-444

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Application Netapp Oncommand Workflow Automation - All All All
Application Netapp Snapcenter - All All All
Application Netty Netty All All All All
Application Oracle Banking Deposits And Lines Of Credit Servicing 2.7 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Party Management 2.7.0 All All All
Application Oracle Banking Platform 2.6.2 All All All
Application Oracle Coherence 12.2.1.4.0 All All All
Application Oracle Coherence 14.1.1.0.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Binding Support Function 1.11.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Network Slice Selection Function 1.8.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Policy 1.15.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Security Edge Protection Proxy 1.7.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Unified Data Repository 1.15.0 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Design Studio 7.4.2 All All All
Application Oracle Communications Instant Messaging Server 8.1 All All All
Application Oracle Helidon 1.4.10 All All All
Application Oracle Helidon 2.4.0 All All All
Application Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools 8.58 All All All
Application Oracle Peoplesoft Enterprise Peopletools 8.59 All All All
Application Quarkus Quarkus All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3268-1] netty security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2022 MISC www.oracle.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5316-1 netty DEBIAN www.debian.org
Merge pull request from GHSA-wx5j-54mm-rqqq · netty/netty@07aa6b5 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE-2021-43797 Apache Netty Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
HTTP fails to validate against control chars in header names which may lead to HTTP request smuggling · Advisory · netty/netty · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - July 2022 N/A www.oracle.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181469 Debian Security Update for netty (DLA 3268-1)
  • 181471 Debian Security Update for netty (DSA 5316-1)
  • 183061 Debian Security Update for netty (CVE-2021-43797)
  • 199574 Ubuntu Security Notification for Netty Vulnerabilities (USN-6049-1)
  • 240458 Red Hat Update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.5 on RHEL 7 (RHSA-2022:4918)
  • 240459 Red Hat Update for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.5 on RHEL 8 (RHSA-2022:4919)
  • 240566 Red Hat Update for Satellite 6.11 Release (RHSA-2022:5498)
  • 376547 Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Product Multiple Vulnerabilities (CPUAPR2022)
  • 376549 Oracle Coherence April 2022 Critical Patch Update (CPUAPR2022)
  • 753182 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for netty3 (SUSE-SU-2022:2047-1)
  • 960505 Rocky Linux Security Update for Satellite (RLSA-2022:5498)
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