CVE-2021-21295

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21295
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-21295.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-21295
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Related
Published
2021-03-09T19:15:12Z
Modified
2024-09-18T03:13:12.048025Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In Netty (io.netty:netty-codec-http2) before version 4.1.60.Final there is a vulnerability that enables request smuggling. If a Content-Length header is present in the original HTTP/2 request, the field is not validated by Http2MultiplexHandler as it is propagated up. This is fine as long as the request is not proxied through as HTTP/1.1. If the request comes in as an HTTP/2 stream, gets converted into the HTTP/1.1 domain objects (HttpRequest, HttpContent, etc.) via Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodecand then sent up to the child channel's pipeline and proxied through a remote peer as HTTP/1.1 this may result in request smuggling. In a proxy case, users may assume the content-length is validated somehow, which is not the case. If the request is forwarded to a backend channel that is a HTTP/1.1 connection, the Content-Length now has meaning and needs to be checked. An attacker can smuggle requests inside the body as it gets downgraded from HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1. For an example attack refer to the linked GitHub Advisory. Users are only affected if all of this is true: HTTP2MultiplexCodec or Http2FrameCodec is used, Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec is used to convert to HTTP/1.1 objects, and these HTTP/1.1 objects are forwarded to another remote peer. This has been patched in 4.1.60.Final As a workaround, the user can do the validation by themselves by implementing a custom ChannelInboundHandler that is put in the ChannelPipeline behind Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / netty

Package

Name
netty
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/netty?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:4.1.48-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / netty

Package

Name
netty
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/netty?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:4.1.48-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / netty

Package

Name
netty
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/netty?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:4.1.48-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/apache/kudu

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/kudu
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
5cd6779a073ce02e19a3794dd19657df6aeea86c
Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/netty/netty
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
89c241e3b1795ff257af4ad6eadc616cb2fb3dc4

Affected versions

netty-4.*

netty-4.0.0.Alpha1
netty-4.0.0.Alpha2
netty-4.0.0.Alpha3
netty-4.0.0.Alpha4
netty-4.0.0.Alpha5
netty-4.0.0.Alpha6
netty-4.0.0.Alpha7
netty-4.0.0.Alpha8
netty-4.0.0.Beta1
netty-4.0.0.Beta2
netty-4.0.0.Beta3
netty-4.0.0.CR1
netty-4.0.0.CR2
netty-4.0.0.CR3
netty-4.0.0.CR4
netty-4.0.0.CR5
netty-4.0.0.CR7
netty-4.0.0.CR8
netty-4.0.0.CR9
netty-4.0.0.Final
netty-4.0.1.Final
netty-4.0.10.Final
netty-4.0.11.Final
netty-4.0.12.Final
netty-4.0.13.Final
netty-4.0.14.Beta1
netty-4.0.14.Final
netty-4.0.15.Final
netty-4.0.2.Final
netty-4.0.3.Final
netty-4.0.4.Final
netty-4.0.5.Final
netty-4.0.6.Final
netty-4.0.7.Final
netty-4.0.8.Final
netty-4.1.0.Beta1
netty-4.1.0.Beta2
netty-4.1.0.Beta3
netty-4.1.0.Beta4
netty-4.1.0.Beta5
netty-4.1.0.Beta6
netty-4.1.0.Beta7
netty-4.1.0.Beta8
netty-4.1.0.CR1
netty-4.1.0.CR2
netty-4.1.0.CR3
netty-4.1.0.CR4
netty-4.1.0.CR5
netty-4.1.0.CR6
netty-4.1.0.CR7
netty-4.1.0.Final
netty-4.1.1.Final
netty-4.1.10.Final
netty-4.1.11.Final
netty-4.1.12.Final
netty-4.1.13.Final
netty-4.1.14.Final
netty-4.1.15.Final
netty-4.1.16.Final
netty-4.1.17.Final
netty-4.1.18.Final
netty-4.1.19.Final
netty-4.1.2.Final
netty-4.1.20.Final
netty-4.1.21.Final
netty-4.1.22.Final
netty-4.1.23.Final
netty-4.1.24.Final
netty-4.1.25.Final
netty-4.1.26.Final
netty-4.1.27.Final
netty-4.1.28.Final
netty-4.1.29.Final
netty-4.1.3.Final
netty-4.1.30.Final
netty-4.1.31.Final
netty-4.1.32.Final
netty-4.1.33.Final
netty-4.1.34.Final
netty-4.1.35.Final
netty-4.1.36.Final
netty-4.1.37.Final
netty-4.1.38.Final
netty-4.1.39.Final
netty-4.1.4.Final
netty-4.1.40.Final
netty-4.1.41.Final
netty-4.1.42.Final
netty-4.1.43.Final
netty-4.1.44.Final
netty-4.1.45.Final
netty-4.1.46.Final
netty-4.1.47.Final
netty-4.1.48.Final
netty-4.1.49.Final
netty-4.1.5.Final
netty-4.1.50.Final
netty-4.1.51.Final
netty-4.1.52.Final
netty-4.1.53.Final
netty-4.1.54.Final
netty-4.1.55.Final
netty-4.1.56.Final
netty-4.1.57.Final
netty-4.1.58.Final
netty-4.1.59.Final
netty-4.1.6.Final
netty-4.1.7.Final
netty-4.1.8.Final
netty-4.1.9.Final