GHSA-c69g-56f8-xwqjMedium

Netty: [codec-http2] Lack of Host Header Deduplication in HTTP/2→HTTP/1.x Translation Leads to Request Routing Bypass

Published
July 22, 2026
Last Modified
July 22, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Netty's HTTP/2-to-HTTP/1.x translation layer (Http2StreamFrameToHttpObjectCodec and InboundHttp2ToHttpAdapter) fails to deduplicate or validate Host headers when an HTTP/2 client supplies both the :authority pseudo-header and a literal host header in a single HEADERS frame. The translator maps :authority to Host and separately copies the literal host header, producing an HttpRequest object containing two Host headers with attacker-controlled differing values.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/io.netty:netty-codec-http2:>= 4.2.0.Final, <= 4.2.15.Final
  • maven/io.netty:netty-codec-http2:< 4.1.136.Final

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