CVE-2026-116542
CVE-2026-116542 · Netty netty-tcnative before 2.0.84.Final SNI Hostname Spoofing via Modified UTF-8 Decoding
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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.
CVSS 6.9 · Medium · EPSS 0.2% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
netty-tcnative
- Versions
- ≥ 0, < 2.0.84.Final: Affected (custom)
Update to 2.0.84.Final
netty-tcnative-boringssl-static
- Versions
- ≥ 0, < 2.0.84.Final: Affected (custom)
Update to 2.0.84.Final
netty-tcnative Debian:12
- Versions
- 2.0.28-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Debian:13
- Versions
- 2.0.28-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Debian:14
- Versions
- 2.0.28-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.1.33.Fork6-1
- 1.1.33.Fork10-2
- 1.1.33.Fork14-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.1.33.Fork26-1
- 1.1.33.Fork26-1build1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 2.0.20-1
- 2.0.28-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
- Versions
- 2.0.28-1
- 2.0.28-1build1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
- Versions
- 2.0.28-1build1
- 2.0.28-1build2
- 2.0.28-1build3
- 2.0.28-1build4
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Ubuntu:26.10
- Versions
- 2.0.28-1build5
- 2.0.28-1build6
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
netty-tcnative Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
- Versions
- 2.0.28-1build4
- 2.0.28-1build5
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
Original sources
- https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/security/advisories/GHSA-2784-hxmm-4hgf
- https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/commit/a879c85b9776cf478aada3ca69e60b8c0a99ed38
- https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/blob/netty-tcnative-parent-2.0.83.Final/openssl-dynamic/src/main/c/sslcontext.c#L2608
- https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/releases/tag/netty-tcnative-parent-2.0.84.Final
- https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netty-netty-tcnative-before-2.0.84-final-sni-hostname-spoofing-via-modified-utf-8-decoding
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116542