A flaw was found in the netty-codec-haproxy component, part of the Netty network application framework. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform protocol-level injection attacks by crafting malformed HAProxy protocol frames that contain embedded carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF) sequences. This can lead to the injection of arbitrary content, potentially disrupting network communication or enabling further attacks.

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.

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Netty: HAProxy V1 Protocol CRLF Injection via AF_UNIX Address

Уязвимость классов HAProxyMessage, HAProxyMessageEncoder фреймворка для разработки сетевых приложений, серверов и клиентов протоколов Netty, позволяющая нарушителю подменить данные