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SCA: security update for io.netty:netty-all (GHSA-p979-4mfw-53vg)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423308

Description

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

 - Netty before 4.1.42.Final mishandles whitespace before the colon in HTTP headers (such as a "Transfer-
 Encoding : chunked" line), which leads to HTTP request smuggling. (CVE-2019-16869)

Solution

Update the io.netty:netty-all library and its related packages to version 4.1.42.Final or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p979-4mfw-53vg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423308

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

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-2019-16869

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: 10/11/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/26/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-16869

cwe: CWE-444