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.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2156
Reference (s):
- BID:74704
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74704
- http://netty.io/news/2015/05/08/3-9-8-Final-and-3.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222923
- https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/3754