A flaw was found in Netty's HTTP/2 stack. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to inject prohibited characters, such as NUL, Line Feed, and Carriage Return, into HTTP/2 header field values due to insufficient validation. When these values cross an HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1 translation boundary, they can be exploited for request smuggling, header injection, or response splitting. This could lead to unauthorized access, data manipulation, or other security bypasses.
CVE-2026-93579
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-18. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(high)
- EG Risk
- 34(Track)EG Risk 34/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity65% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
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- EPSS %ILE
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- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 18, 2026
Last Modified
September 18, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Sep 18, 20262536970 – (CVE-2026-93579) CVE-2026-93579 io.netty/netty-codec-http2: Netty: HTTP/2 header field values are not validated by default (CR/LF/NUL passthrough)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536970Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-93579(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 5× in last 7d / 5× 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.
- 2026-09-18 19:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 19:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-09-18 17:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 16:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-18 16:49 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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