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SCA: security update for io.netty:netty-handler (GHSA-ff2w-cq2g-wv5f)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422435

Description

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

 - Netty 4.1.43.Final allows HTTP Request Smuggling because it mishandles Transfer-Encoding whitespace (such
 as a [space]Transfer-Encoding:chunked line) and a later Content-Length header. This issue exists because
 of an incomplete fix for CVE-2019-16869. (CVE-2020-7238)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ff2w-cq2g-wv5f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422435

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-7238

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/21/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-7238

cwe: CWE-444