CVE-2026-116542
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.002 · 11 %ileEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.7–6.9
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No affected products recorded.
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references (6) nvd
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative
- 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/commit/a879c85b9776cf478aada3ca69e60b8c0a99ed38
- https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/releases/tag/netty-tcnative-parent-2.0.84.Final
- https://github.com/netty/netty-tcnative/security/advisories/GHSA-2784-hxmm-4hgf
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/netty-netty-tcnative-before-2.0.84-final-sni-hostname-spoofing-via-modified-utf-8-decoding
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