SCA: security update for io.netty:netty-handler (GHSA-p2v9-g2qv-p635)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423502

Description

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

- HttpObjectDecoder.java in Netty before 4.1.44 allows a Content-Length header to be accompanied by a second
Content-Length header, or by a Transfer-Encoding header. (CVE-2019-20445)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p2v9-g2qv-p635

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423502

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.06

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-20445

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: 1/29/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-20445

cwe: CWE-444