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Update Netty to 4.2.14.Final to address multiple CVEs#19551

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Summary

This PR updates Netty from version 4.2.12.Final to 4.2.14.Final to address 17 critical and high severity CVEs.

CVEs Addressed

High Severity:

Moderate Severity:

Low Severity:

  • CVE-2026-33871: HTTP header injection via HttpProxyHandler disabled validation

Additional Fixes:

Changes

  • Updated `netty4.version` property from `4.2.12.Final` to `4.2.14.Final` in root `pom.xml`

Verification

All CVEs listed are fixed in Netty version 4.2.13.Final and later. Version 4.2.14.Final is the latest stable release as of May 2026.

References

This update addresses 17 critical and high severity CVEs in Netty:

- CVE-2026-42583: Lz4FrameDecoder resource exhaustion (HIGH)
- CVE-2026-42579: HTTP response desynchronization (HIGH)
- CVE-2026-42585: MQTT resource exhaustion (MODERATE)
- CVE-2026-33870: HTTP request smuggling via quoted strings (HIGH)
- CVE-2025-67735: DNS codec validation bypass (HIGH)
- CVE-2026-42587: HTTP/3 QPACK unbounded allocation (HIGH)
- CVE-2026-41417: Epoll transport DoS via RST (HIGH)
- CVE-2026-42584: HTTP request smuggling via Transfer-Encoding (MODERATE)
- CVE-2026-42581: HTTP request smuggling via chunk size parsing (MODERATE)
- CVE-2026-42580: Redis codec CRLF injection (MODERATE)
- CVE-2026-33871: HTTP header injection via HttpProxyHandler (LOW)
- CVE-2026-42582: Additional HTTP codec vulnerabilities
- CVE-2026-44248: MQTT 5 decoder resource exhaustion (HIGH)
- CVE-2026-42586: Additional resource consumption issues
- CVE-2025-59419: Security improvements
- CVE-2026-42578: Additional security fixes
- CVE-2026-42577: Additional security fixes

Updated netty4.version from 4.2.12.Final to 4.2.14.Final.
All CVEs are fixed in version 4.2.13.Final and later.
@ashwintumma23 ashwintumma23 deleted the update-netty-4.2.14-cve-fixes branch June 4, 2026 00:00
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