CVE-2019-16869

HIGHNVD 7.57.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 15.0%, top 5% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, nvd
7.5
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 8%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

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.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5(medium)
EPSS
94.3%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 26, 2019

Last Modified

July 7, 2025

References (161)

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2019-16869(10)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(8)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibnetty-3.9-java (3.9.0.Final-1ubuntu0.1) @ xenial2026-05-27ubuntu
ubuntulibnetty-3.9-java (3.9.9.Final-1+deb9u1build0.18.04.1) @ bionic2026-05-27ubuntu
redhateap7-netty-0:4.1.45-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el72024-08-26redhat
redhatkaraf-transaction-manager-narayana2021-08-11redhat
redhatnetty2020-07-29redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.8-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap2020-01-21redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.8-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap2020-01-21redhat
redhateap7-wildfly-transaction-client-0:1.1.8-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap2020-01-21redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(2 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
io.netty:netty-all4.0.0.Beta1 ... 4.1.9.Final (127 versions)4.1.42.Final—
org.jboss.netty:netty3.0.0.CR1 ... 3.2.9.Final (39 versions)——

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(8)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 38× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-07-11 08:24 UTCEPSS rescore
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  11. 2026-07-02 21:35 UTCOSV refresh
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  11. 2026-06-14 17:43 UTCOSV refresh
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  37. 2026-05-27 13:53 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-05-27 13:53 UTCVendor advisory
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  42. 2026-05-24 22:55 UTCOSV refresh

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2019-16869?
CVE-2019-16869 is a high vulnerability published on September 26, 2019. 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.
When was CVE-2019-16869 disclosed?
CVE-2019-16869 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 26, 2019, with the most recent update on July 7, 2025. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2019-16869 actively exploited?
CVE-2019-16869 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 94.3% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2019-16869?
CVE-2019-16869 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2019-16869?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2019-16869, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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