Netty before 3.9.8.Final, 3.10.x before 3.10.3.Final, 4.0.x before 4.0.28.Final, and 4.1.x before 4.1.0.Beta5 and Play Framework 2.x before 2.3.9 might allow remote attackers to bypass the httpOnly flag on cookies and obtain sensitive information by leveraging improper validation of cookie name and value characters.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Netty before 3.9.8.Final, 3.10.x before 3.10.3.Final, 4.0.x before 4.0.28.Final, and 4.1.x before     4.1.0.Beta5 and Play Framework 2.x before 2.3.9 might allow remote attackers to bypass the httpOnly flag     on cookies and obtain sensitive information by leveraging improper validation of cookie name and value     characters. (CVE-2015-2156)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Netty before 3.9.8.Final, 3.10.x before 3.10.3.Final, 4.0.x before 4.0.28.Final, and 4.1.x before
    4.1.0.Beta5 and Play Framework 2.x before 2.3.9 might allow remote attackers to bypass the httpOnly flag
    on cookies and obtain sensitive information by leveraging improper validation of cookie name and value
    characters. (CVE-2015-2156)

Security fix for CVE-2015-2156

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255183	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2015-2156	Nessus	Misc.	high
420466	SCA: security update for io.netty:netty, io.netty:netty-parent, org.jboss.netty:netty (GHSA-xfv3-rrfm-f2rv)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
420466	SCA: security update for io.netty:netty, io.netty:netty-parent, org.jboss.netty:netty (GHSA-xfv3-rrfm-f2rv)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
83996	Fedora 21 : netty-4.0.28-1.fc21 (2015-8713)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
83930	Fedora 22 : netty-4.0.28-1.fc22 (2015-8684)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2015-2156

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high

high