A flaw was found in Netty's netty-codec-http2 component. The HTTP/2 encoder does not properly handle special characters in HTTP headers. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to craft specific HTTP/2 requests, leading to HTTP response splitting and header injection attacks. Such attacks can enable an attacker to manipulate web content or inject malicious headers.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-c69g-56f8-xwqj Netty: [codec-http2] Lack of Host Header Deduplication in HTTP/2→HTTP/1.x Translation Leads to Request Routing Bypass
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Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in Netty's netty-codec-http2 component. The HTTP/2 encoder does not properly handle special characters in HTTP headers. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to craft specific HTTP/2 requests, leading to HTTP response splitting and header injection attacks. Such attacks can enable an attacker to manipulate web content or inject malicious headers.
Title io.netty/netty-codec-http2: Netty: Improper header neutralization in netty-codec-http2
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cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N'}

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-59900 - Bugzilla

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