GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-c653-97m9-rcg9 Netty: Wrapping plain trust manager silently disables hostname verification
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-50010
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- io.netty:netty-handler
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-347
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-15
Affected packages
• Maven io.netty:netty-handler: >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final → fixed in 4.2.15.Final
• Maven io.netty:netty-handler: < 4.1.135.Final → fixed in 4.1.135.Final
Description
SimpleTrustManagerFactory.engineGetTrustManagers() and related paths wrap any user-supplied plain X509TrustManager in X509TrustManagerWrapper, which extends X509ExtendedTrustManager but implements the 3-arg checkServerTrusted(chain, authType, SSLEngine) by discarding the SSLEngine and calling the 2-arg delegate. Because the object now IS an X509ExtendedTrustManager, neither SunJSSE's internal AbstractTrustManagerWrapper nor Netty's own OpenSslX509TrustManagerWrapper will re-wrap it to add endpoint-identification. Consequently, even though Netty 4.2 sets endpointIdentificationAlgorithm="HTTPS" by default, a client built with `SslContextBuilder.forClient().trustManager(somePlainX509TrustManager)` performs no hostname verification at all.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-50010 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness
References
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-c653-97m9-rcg9 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50010 advisory
- https://github.com/netty/netty package
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final web
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final web