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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.8

CVE-2019-16771 json

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Response Splitting') in Armeria

published 2019-12-05 6 y ago modified 2026-07-08 4 mo ago also GHSA-24r8-fm9r-cpj2 , GHSA-35fr-h7jr-hh86 , EUVD-2019-0769

cvss
4.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 62%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Versions of Armeria 0.85.0 through and including 0.96.0 are vulnerable to HTTP response splitting, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via CRLF sequences when unsanitized data is used to populate the headers of an HTTP response. This vulnerability has been patched in 0.97.0. Potential impacts of this vulnerability include cross-user defacement, cache poisoning, Cross-site scripting (XSS), and page hijacking.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.linecorp.armeria:armeria 0.97.0
  • LINE Armeria 0.97.0

Exploit prediction

0.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.linecorp.armeria:armeria
>=0.85.0, <0.97.0
>=0.50.0, <0.97.0
0.97.0

Affected products

  • LINE Armeria

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-113 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

References

Sources

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