Netty: Wrapping plain trust manager silently disables hostname verification
GHSA-c653-97m9-rcg9 · CVE-2026-50010
Published · Modified
Description
SimpleTrustManagerFactory.engineGetTrustManagers() and related paths wrap any user-supplied plain X509TrustManager in X509TrustManagerWrapper, which extends X509ExtendedTrustManager but implements the 3-arg checkServerTrusted(chain, authType, SSLEngine) by discarding the SSLEngine and calling the 2-arg delegate. Because the object now IS an X509ExtendedTrustManager, neither SunJSSE's internal AbstractTrustManagerWrapper nor Netty's own OpenSslX509TrustManagerWrapper will re-wrap it to add endpoint-identification. Consequently, even though Netty 4.2 sets endpointIdentificationAlgorithm="HTTPS" by default, a client built with SslContextBuilder.forClient().trustManager(somePlainX509TrustManager) performs no hostname verification at all.
References
- WEB https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-c653-97m9-rcg9
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50010
- PACKAGE https://github.com/netty/netty
- WEB https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final
- WEB https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final
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