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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2019-11284 json

Reactor Netty authentication leak in redirects

published 2019-10-17 7 y ago modified 2026-09-04 2 mo ago also GHSA-j52r-xc68-q8f4 , EUVD-2019-0705

cvss
6.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Pivotal Reactor Netty, versions prior to 0.8.11, passes headers through redirects, including authorization ones. A remote unauthenticated malicious user may gain access to credentials for a different server than they have access to.

Patch / fix

  • maven io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty 0.8.11
  • broadcom reactor_netty 0.8.11

Exploit prediction

0.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty
<0.8.11
0.8.11

Affected products

  • Pivotal Reactor Netty

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.