VulnerabilityAnalyzed
CVE-2026-42585
This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.25%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.25%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.25% probability · 16th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-444
- Affected
- netty/netty
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-38f8-5428-x5cvExploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-38f8-5428-x5cvExploit, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.