CVE-2025-58056
What it is
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for development of maintainable high performance protocol servers and clients. In versions 4.1.124.Final, and 4.2.0.Alpha3 through 4.2.4.Final, Netty incorrectly accepts standalone newline characters (LF) as a chunk-size line terminator, regardless of a preceding carriage return (CR), instead of requiring CRLF per HTTP/1.1 standards. When combined with reverse proxies that parse LF differently (treating it as part of the chunk extension), attackers can craft requests that the proxy sees as one request but Netty processes as two, enabling request smuggling attacks. This is fixed in versions 4.1.125.Final and 4.2.5.Final.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.7% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 2.9 LOW (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.7% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-444
- Record status
- Analyzed
Affected
- Netty < 4.1.125
- Netty < 4.2.5
Attack profile CVSS 4.0 · 2.9
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Is it in your code?
Hand this to your coding agent. It searches your project for the affected products and checks versions. Nothing leaves your machine.
Read https://cve-list.com/agent/cve/CVE-2025-58056.md and follow it. Check whether this project is affected by CVE-2025-58056. Read only. Don't change anything and don't upload my code. Tell me yes, no or not sure, with the file as proof.
Fix and advisories
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/edb55fd8e0a3bcbd85881e423464f585183d1284
- https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/15611
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-fghv-69vj-qj49
References
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9112#name-chunked-transfer-coding
- https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/unCVEed/issues/1
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/edb55fd8e0a3bcbd85881e423464f585183d1284
- https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/15522
- https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/15611
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-fghv-69vj-qj49
- https://w4ke.info/2025/06/18/funky-chunks.html