CVE-2025-58056
Publication date 3 September 2025
Last updated 15 September 2025
Ubuntu priority
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.
Why is this CVE low priority?
http smuggling issue
Status
Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
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netty | 25.04 plucky |
Needs evaluation
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24.04 LTS noble |
Needs evaluation
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22.04 LTS jammy |
Needs evaluation
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20.04 LTS focal |
Needs evaluation
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18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
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16.04 LTS xenial |
Needs evaluation
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14.04 LTS trusty |
Needs evaluation
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netty-3.9 | 25.04 plucky | Not in release |
24.04 LTS noble | Not in release | |
22.04 LTS jammy | Not in release | |
18.04 LTS bionic |
Needs evaluation
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16.04 LTS xenial |
Needs evaluation
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References
Other references
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-58056
- 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