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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-59903

Netty: Cache Poisoning and Information Disclosure via CORS Vary Header Overwrite

Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.17.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.http.cors.CorsHandler setVaryHeader replaces application Vary headers such as Authorization or Cookie with Origin, allowing a caching proxy or CDN to reuse authenticated responses across users and disclose sensitive information. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.17.Final.

Affected products

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

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  • < 4.1.137.Finalaffected
  • >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.17.Finalaffected

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