SICSR-18116

[SICSR-18116] Security issues with Netty related to how it handles HTTP headers  
Product Line: Cede
Component/s: Technical - Base System
Affects Version/s:  
Fix Version/s: SICS 20.1
Customer: DXC

Problem:


Name
CVE-2019-16869
Description
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.
CWE
CWE-444
CVSS v2.0 Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS v3.0 Severity

Dependency
netty-transport-4.1.29.Final.jar


Name
CVE-2019-20444
Description
HttpObjectDecoder.java in Netty before 4.1.44 allows an HTTP header that lacks a colon, which might be interpreted as a separate header with an incorrect syntax, or might be interpreted as an “invalid fold.”
CWE
CWE-444
CVSS v2.0 Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS v3.0 Severity

Dependency
netty-transport-4.1.29.Final.jar


Name
CVE-2019-20445
Description
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.
CWE
CWE-444
CVSS v2.0 Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS v3.0 Severity

Dependency
netty-transport-4.1.29.Final.jar


Solution:

Upgrade to Netty 4.1.45.Final

Workaround:

Root Cause:

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Impact on Existing Data

Recovery Method for Existing Data Affected

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