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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-116542

Netty netty-tcnative before 2.0.84.Final SNI Hostname Spoofing via Modified UTF-8 Decoding

Description

Netty netty-tcnative before 2.0.84.Final contains an SNI hostname spoofing vulnerability that allows remote unauthenticated clients to alter hostnames via JNI NewStringUTF decoding. Attackers can send overlong encodings like 0xC0 0x80 in the ClientHello server_name to confuse SNI-based certificate selection, access decisions, and logging.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

netty netty-tcnative

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 2.0.84.Finalaffected
pkg:maven/io.netty/netty-tcnative

netty netty-tcnative-boringssl-static

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 2.0.84.Finalaffected
pkg:maven/io.netty/netty-tcnative-boringssl-static

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