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Netty: HAProxy V1 Protocol CRLF Injection via AF_UNIX Address
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N H N 5.5 .0011 1.6 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
netty < 4.1.136.Final – —
TIMELINE
Jul 7 Reserved by GitHub_M
Jul 29 EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-59919 (netty). Public exploit reference added.
Jul 29 Published (CNA: GitHub_M)
Description
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. In versions prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, Netty's HAProxy encoder ( HAProxyMessageEncoder ) writes AF_UNIX source and destination socket addresses into the HAProxy V1 text protocol without validating them for CRLF characters, so an attacker who controls an AF_UNIX address can inject \r\n sequences and split the single PROXY header into multiple lines. This is possible because the V1 protocol uses CRLF as its line terminator and, unlike IPv4/IPv6 addresses whose format checks implicitly reject CRLF, AF_UNIX addresses are only validated for length (up to 108 bytes), allowing a forged second PROXY header line that spoofs the client source/destination IP to a downstream server or load balancer. The issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| July 7, 2026 | Reserved | Reserved by GitHub_M |
| July 29, 2026 | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED | EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2026-59919 (netty). Public exploit reference added. |
| July 29, 2026 | Published | Published (CNA: GitHub_M) |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 1 row
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| netty | netty | — | < 4.1.136.Final | — |
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