GHSA-57rv-r2g8-2cj3

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    GHSA-57rv-r2g8-2cj3

    Published: 7 May 2026Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Netty has HttpClientCodec response desynchronization

    Details: ### Summary If HttpClientCodec is configured, there are use cases when a response body from one request, can be parsed as another's. ### Details HttpClientCodec pairs each inbound response with an outbound request by `queue.poll()` once per response, including for `1xx`. If the client pipelines GET then HEAD and the server sends 103, then 200 with GET body, then 200 for HEAD, the queue pairs HEAD with the first 200. The HEAD rule then skips reading that message’s body, so the GET entity bytes stay on the stream and the following 200 is parsed from the wrong offset. Prerequisites - HTTP/1.1 pipelining - HEAD in the pipeline - The server sends 1xx ### PoC ```java @Test public void test() { EmbeddedChannel channel = new EmbeddedChannel(new HttpClientCodec()); assertTrue(channel.writeOutbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.GET, "/1"))); ByteBuf request = channel.readOutbound(); request.release(); assertNull(channel.readOutbound()); assertTrue(channel.writeOutbound(new DefaultFullHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.HEAD, "/2"))); request = channel.readOutbound(); request.release(); assertNull(channel.readOutbound()); String responseStr = "HTTP/1.1 103 Early Hints\r\n\r\n" + "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: 5\r\n\r\nhello" + "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n\r\n"; assertTrue(channel.writeInbound(Unpooled.copiedBuffer(responseStr, CharsetUtil.US_ASCII))); // Response 1 HttpResponse response = channel.readInbound(); assertEquals(HttpResponseStatus.EARLY_HINTS, response.status()); LastHttpContent last = channel.readInbound(); assertEquals(0, last.content().readableBytes()); last.release(); // Response 2 response = channel.readInbound(); assertEquals(HttpResponseStatus.OK, response.status()); last = channel.readInbound(); assertEquals(0, last.content().readableBytes()); last.release(); // Response 3 FullHttpResponse response1 = channel.readInbound(); assertTrue(response1.decoderResult().isFailure()); assertEquals(0, response1.content().readableBytes()); response1.release(); assertFalse(channel.finish()); } ``` ### Impact Integrity/availability of HTTP parsing on that connection, unsafe reuse of the socket.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: io.netty:netty-codec-http

    Purl: pkg:maven/io.netty/netty-codec-http

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 4.2.0.Alpha1
    Fixed -4.2.13.Final

    Affected versions

    4.2.0.Alpha1
    4.2.0.Alpha2
    4.2.0.Alpha3
    4.2.0.Alpha4
    4.2.0.Alpha5
    4.2.0.Beta1
    4.2.0.Final
    4.2.0.RC1
    4.2.0.RC2
    4.2.0.RC3
    4.2.0.RC4
    4.2.1.Final
    4.2.10.Final
    4.2.11.Final
    4.2.12.Final
    4.2.2.Final
    4.2.3.Final
    4.2.4.Final
    4.2.5.Final
    4.2.6.Final
    4.2.7.Final
    4.2.8.Final
    4.2.9.Final

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-57rv-r2g8-2cj3 | CVE-DB