CVE-2015-2156 (High) detected in netty-3.9.2.Final.jar

Vulnerable Library - netty-3.9.2.Final.jar

The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous event-driven network application framework and tools for rapid development of maintainable high performance and high scalability protocol servers and clients. In other words, Netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. It greatly simplifies and streamlines network programming such as TCP and UDP socket server.

Library home page: http://netty.io/

Path to dependency file: /samples/client/petstore/scala/build.gradle

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/io.netty/netty/3.9.2.Final/c8c67fb7c05e8ea847461ca972bfb08d69c520ad/netty-3.9.2.Final.jar,/home/wss-scanner/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/io.netty/netty/3.9.2.Final/c8c67fb7c05e8ea847461ca972bfb08d69c520ad/netty-3.9.2.Final.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• jersey-ahc-client-1.0.5.jar (Root Library)
  • ❌ netty-3.9.2.Final.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 4b7a8d7d7384aa6a27d6309c35ade0916edae7ed

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

Netty before 3.9.8.Final, 3.10.x before 3.10.3.Final, 4.0.x before 4.0.28.Final, and 4.1.x before 4.1.0.Beta5 and Play Framework 2.x before 2.3.9 might allow remote attackers to bypass the httpOnly flag on cookies and obtain sensitive information by leveraging improper validation of cookie name and value characters.

Publish Date: 2017-10-18

URL: CVE-2015-2156

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: None

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2156

Release Date: 2017-10-18

Fix Resolution: io.netty:netty:3.9.8.Final,io.netty:netty:3.10.3.Final,io.netty:netty-all:4.0.28.Final,io.netty:netty-codec-http:4.0.28.Final,io.netty:netty-codec-http:4.1.0.Beta5