Bug 1798509 (CVE-2019-20445) - CVE-2019-20445 netty: HttpObjectDecoder.java allows Content-Length header to accompanied by second Content-Length header
Summary: CVE-2019-20445 netty: HttpObjectDecoder.java allows Content-Length header to ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-20445
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1798511 1798769 1798770 1798771 1798772 1798773
Blocks: 1798529
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Reported: 2020-02-05 14:20 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2021-12-14 18:47 UTC (History)
87 users (show)

Fixed In Version: netty 4.1.44
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A flaw was found in Netty before version 4.1.44, where it accepted multiple Content-Length headers and also accepted both Transfer-Encoding, as well as Content-Length headers where it should reject the message under such circumstances. In circumstances where Netty is used in the context of a server, it could result in a viable HTTP smuggling vulnerability.
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Last Closed: 2020-02-13 20:09:46 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0497 0 None None None 2020-02-13 14:51:11 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0567 0 None None None 2020-03-03 16:13:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0601 0 None None None 2020-02-25 15:30:36 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0804 0 None None None 2020-03-12 17:04:47 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0805 0 None None None 2020-03-12 17:06:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0806 0 None None None 2020-03-12 17:01:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0811 0 None None None 2020-03-12 17:00:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0922 0 None None None 2020-03-23 08:23:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0939 0 None None None 2020-03-23 13:21:24 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0951 0 None None None 2020-03-23 20:14:11 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1445 0 None None None 2020-04-14 13:05:41 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2321 0 None None None 2020-05-26 16:10:17 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:2333 0 None None None 2020-05-28 15:59:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3192 0 None None None 2020-07-28 15:56:01 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3196 0 None None None 2020-07-29 06:07:54 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:3197 0 None None None 2020-07-29 06:23:11 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:3140 0 None None None 2021-08-11 18:22:42 UTC

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-02-05 14:20:13 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in 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.

Reference:
https://github.com/netty/netty/compare/netty-4.1.43.Final...netty-4.1.44.Final
https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9861
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r310d2ce22304d5298ff87f10134f918c87919b452734f9841d95682d@%3Ccommits.zookeeper.apache.org%3E
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r70b1ff22ee80e8101805b9a473116dd33265709007d2deb6f8c80bf2@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
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Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2020-02-05 14:20:53 UTC 
Created netty tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1798511]
Comment 9 Jonathan Christison 2020-02-13 12:13:36 UTC 
Mitigation:

* Use HTTP/2 instead (clear boundaries between requests)
* Disable reuse of backend connections eg. ```http-reuse never``` in HAProxy or whatever equivalent LB settings
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-13 14:51:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat AMQ Online 1.3.3 GA

Via RHSA-2020:0497 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0497
Comment 11 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-02-13 20:09:46 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-20445
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2020-02-25 15:30:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  AMQ Clients 2.y for RHEL 7
  AMQ Clients 2.y for RHEL 8
  AMQ Clients 2.y for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2020:0601 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0601
Comment 15 Cedric Buissart 2020-02-28 08:09:46 UTC 
Statement:

OpenShift Container Platform ships a vulnerable netty library as part of the logging-elasticsearch5 container. ElasticSearch's security team has stated that the previous vulnerability, CVE-2019-16869, does not poses a substantial practical threat to ElasticSearch 6 [1]. We agree that this issue would be difficult to exploit both these vulnerabilities on OpenShift Container Platform, so we're reducing the impact of this issue to moderate and may fix it in the future release.

Red Hat Satellite ships a vulnerable version of netty embedded in Candlepin. However, the flaw can not be triggered in that context, because HTTP requests are handled by Tomcat, not by netty. A future release may fix this.

[1]  https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/49396
Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-03 16:13:22 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Openshift Application Runtimes

Via RHSA-2020:0567 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0567
Comment 21 Jonathan Christison 2020-03-12 15:28:58 UTC 
Marking AMQ-6 as low as it only uses netty in the context of integration tests, activemq components do not directly rely upon netty.
Comment 22 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-12 17:00:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Via RHSA-2020:0811 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0811
Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-12 17:01:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2020:0806 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0806
Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-12 17:04:42 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2020:0804 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0804
Comment 25 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-12 17:06:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.2 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2020:0805 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0805
Comment 26 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-23 08:23:18 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat AMQ

Via RHSA-2020:0922 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0922
Comment 27 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-23 13:21:19 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss AMQ

Via RHSA-2020:0939 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0939
Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2020-03-23 20:14:06 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Single Sign-On

Via RHSA-2020:0951 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0951
Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-14 13:05:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat AMQ 7.4.3

Via RHSA-2020:1445 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1445
Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2020-05-26 16:10:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Data Grid 7.3.6

Via RHSA-2020:2321 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2321
Comment 31 errata-xmlrpc 2020-05-28 15:59:52 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  EAP-CD 19 Tech Preview

Via RHSA-2020:2333 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2333
Comment 32 errata-xmlrpc 2020-07-28 15:55:56 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Fuse 7.7.0

Via RHSA-2020:3192 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3192
Comment 33 errata-xmlrpc 2020-07-29 06:07:50 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Decision Manager

Via RHSA-2020:3196 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3196
Comment 34 errata-xmlrpc 2020-07-29 06:23:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Process Automation

Via RHSA-2020:3197 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3197
Comment 35 Jonathan Christison 2020-08-04 15:03:22 UTC 
Marking Red Hat Jboss Fuse 6 as having a moderate impact, Fuse 6 distributes affected versions of Netty, however its use in Fuse 6 fabric-gateway is not susceptible to the vulnerability as the fabric-gateway will create a new http client upon each gateway invocation, this means there is no multiplexing of connections, this is a prerequisite of HTTP smuggling/desynchronisation attacks.

 This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following products:
 * Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.
Comment 37 Jonathan Christison 2021-06-01 13:13:27 UTC 
Marking Red Hat Fuse 7 as having a low impact, Fuse 7 distributes affected versions of Netty in the Karaf Narayana transaction manager, however the vulnerable functionality of these artifacts is not used.
Comment 39 errata-xmlrpc 2021-08-11 18:22:36 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Fuse 7.9

Via RHSA-2021:3140 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3140
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