CVE-2022-24823

Netty is an open-source, asynchronous event-driven network application framework. The package io.netty:netty-codec-http prior to version 4.1.77.Final contains an insufficient fix for CVE-2021-21290. When Nettys multipart decoders are used local information disclosure can occur via the local system temporary directory if temporary storing uploads on the disk is enabled. This only impacts applications running on Java version 6 and lower. Additionally, this vulnerability impacts code running on Unix-like systems, and very old versions of Mac OSX and Windows as they all share the system temporary directory between all users. Version 4.1.77.Final contains a patch for this vulnerability. As a workaround, specify ones own java.io.tmpdir when starting the JVM or use DefaultHttpDataFactory.setBaseDir(…) to set the directory to something that is only readable by the current user.

Weakness

Opening temporary files without appropriate measures or controls can leave the file, its contents and any function that it impacts vulnerable to attack.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

References

• https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/185f8b2756a36aaa4f973f1a2a025e7d981823f1
• https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-269q-hmxg-m83q
• https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-5mcr-gq6c-3hq2
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220616-0004/
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html