HIGHCVSS 7.5

CVE-2019-16869

CVE-2019-16869 updated by NVD

Modified: 2026-10-10
Sources: nvd

Summary

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.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16869

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