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SCA: security update for io.netty:netty-handler (GHSA-c653-97m9-rcg9)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 443254

Description

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

 - Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to
 versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, SimpleTrustManagerFactory.engineGetTrustManagers() and related
 paths wrap any user-supplied plain X509TrustManager in X509TrustManagerWrapper, which extends
 X509ExtendedTrustManager but implements the 3-arg checkServerTrusted(chain, authType, SSLEngine) by
 discarding the SSLEngine and calling the 2-arg delegate. Because the object now IS an
 X509ExtendedTrustManager, neither SunJSSE's internal AbstractTrustManagerWrapper nor Netty's own
 OpenSslX509TrustManagerWrapper will re-wrap it to add endpoint-identification. Consequently, even though
 Netty 4.2 sets endpointIdentificationAlgorithm="HTTPS" by default, a client built with
 `SslContextBuilder.forClient().trustManager(somePlainX509TrustManager)` performs no hostname verification
 at all. Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue. (CVE-2026-50010)

Solution

Update the io.netty:netty-handler library and its related packages to version 4.1.135.Final or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c653-97m9-rcg9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 443254

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/16/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.76

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-50010

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-50010

cwe: CWE-347