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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2020.2378.2 Netty vulnerability CVE-2019-20444 16 July 2020 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: Netty Publisher: F5 Networks Operating System: Network Appliance Impact/Access: Reduced Security -- Remote/Unauthenticated Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2019-20444 Reference: ESB-2020.0583 ESB-2020.0582 Original Bulletin: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K14752415 Revision History: July 16 2020: Revised Severity and CVSS for Netty July 14 2020: Initial Release - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- K14752415:Netty vulnerability CVE-2019-20444 Security Advisory Original Publication Date: 14 Jul, 2020 Latest Publication Date: 16 Jul, 2020 Security Advisory Description HttpObjectDecoder.java in Netty before 4.1.44 allows an HTTP header that lacks a colon, which might be interpreted as a separate header with an incorrect syntax, or might be interpreted as an "invalid fold."(CVE-2019-20444) Impact This vulnerability may result in HTTP request smuggling. When malformed or abnormal HTTP requests are interpreted, the system may interpret them inconsistently, allowing the attacker to 'smuggle' a request to one device while the other device is unaware of it. Security Advisory Status F5 Product Development has assigned ID 924369 (BIG-IQ) to this vulnerability. To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about releases, point releases, or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to the following table. For more information about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding security advisory versioning. +----------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-------------+ | | |Versions |Fixes | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable | |Product |Branch|known to |introduced|Severity |score^|component or | | | |be |in | |1 |feature | | | |vulnerable| | | | | +----------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-------------+ | |16.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |15.x |None |Not | | | | |BIG-IP (LTM, | | |applicable| | | | |AAM, Advanced +------+----------+----------+ | | | |WAF, AFM, |14.x |None |Not | | | | |Analytics, APM, | | |applicable|Not | | | |ASM, DDHD, DNS, +------+----------+----------+vulnerable|None |None | |FPS, GTM, Link |13.x |None |Not | | | | |Controller, PEM,| | |applicable| | | | |SSLO) +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |12.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |11.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +----------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-------------+ | |7.x |7.0.0 - |None | | | | | | |7.1.0 | | | | | |BIG-IQ +------+----------+----------+ | |Netty | |Centralized |6.x |6.0.0 - |None |Medium |6.0 |(Connectivity| |Management | |6.1.0 | | | |(SSL, | | +------+----------+----------+ | |Sockets)) | | |5.x |5.2.0 - |None | | | | | | |5.4.0 | | | | | +----------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-------------+ |Traffix SDC |5.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | | | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | +----------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+-------------+ ^1The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge. Security Advisory Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Fixes introduced in column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists. 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