CVE-2015-2156
Netty before 3.9.8.Final, 3.10.x before 3.10.3.Final, 4.0.x before 4.0.28.Final, and 4.1.x before 4.1.0.Beta5 and Play Framework 2.x…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 5.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Netty before 3.9.8.Final, 3.10.x before 3.10.3.Final, 4.0.x before 4.0.28.Final, and 4.1.x before 4.1.0.Beta5 and Play Framework 2.x before 2.3.9 might allow remote attackers to bypass the httpOnly flag on cookies and obtain sensitive information by leveraging improper validation of cookie name and value characters.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.2% · top 7.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenio.netty:nettyGHSA-xfv3-rrfm-f2rv (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenio.netty:netty-parentGHSA-xfv3-rrfm-f2rv (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.jboss.netty:nettyGHSA-xfv3-rrfm-f2rv (opens in a new tab)
References
12
- http://netty.io/news/2015/05/08/3-9-8-Final-and-3.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.playframework.com/security/vulnerability/CVE-2015-2156-HttpOnlyBypass (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-8713 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222923 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/3754 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-8684 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 74704 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20150516 Netty/Play's Security Updates (CVE-2015-2156) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [pulsar-commits] 20190416 [GitHub] [pulsar] one70six opened a new issue #4057: Security Vulnerabilities - Black Duck Scan - Pulsar v.2.3.1 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [cassandra-commits] 20191113 [jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-15423) CVE-2015-2156 (Netty is vulnerable to Information Disclosure) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [cassandra-commits] 20191114 [jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-15423) CVE-2015-2156 (Netty is vulnerable to Information Disclosure) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [druid-commits] 20191115 [GitHub] [incubator-druid] ccaominh opened a new pull request #8878: Address security vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0524 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xfv3-rrfm-f2rv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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