netty/netty-incubator-codec-ohttp · Security

OHttpVersionChunkDraft: Missing Final-Chunk Enforcement Leads to Undetected Stream Truncation

GHSA ID
GHSA-r6fj-869h-4f6q
CVE ID
CVE-2026-48480
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS v4
6.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Description

The codec-ohttp implementation of draft-ietf-ohai-chunked-ohttp does not verify that a cryptographically-signed final chunk was received before the outer HTTP body terminates. An on-path adversary (the OHTTP relay itself, or any MITM on the relay↔gateway or relay↔client transport) can forward a prefix of a legitimate chunked-OHTTP message—cut at a non-final chunk boundary—and close the outer body cleanly, producing no decryption error and no exception in the receiving application.

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