CVE-2026-59921 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-59921: Netty: CRLF Injection via Multipart Filename in Netty HttpPostRequestEncoder

Vendor Netty
Product netty
Weakness CWE-93 · CRLF injection
Published July 28, 2026
Last update July 29, 2026

CVSS base score

5.7/10
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, HttpPostRequestEncoder constructs multipart HTTP request bodies by directly concatenating user-supplied filenames and field names into Content-Disposition MIME headers without validating or sanitizing CRLF characters (\r\n). Since MIME headers are delimited by CRLF, an attacker who controls the filename can inject arbitrary MIME headers into the multipart body part. The root cause is that neither the encoder nor the FileUpload implementations' setFilename() methods, which only check for null, neutralize CRLF characters before the filename is embedded into the header. This issue has been fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 28, 2026 CVE published
July 29, 2026 Record updated

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