CVE-2026-41207
netty-incubator-codec-ohttp's HPKEContext operations may produce empty byte[] on failures
Published: 5/26/2026Modified: 5/26/2026
Description
HKDF_expand: returns non-NULL on failure. The byte[] is filled with zeros and has no way to distinguish success from failure. Since this output is used as HKDF key material for the response AEAD, a failure silently produces an all-zero key. When EVP_HPKE_CTX_export fails it also returns an empty byte[] array filled with zeros. This byte[] feeds directly into OHttpCrypto.createResponseAEAD(...). A silent all-zero export secret would produce a deterministic, attacker-predictable AEAD key.
Affected packages (1)
- Maven/io.netty.incubator:netty-incubator-codec-ohttpfrom 0, < 0.0.21.Final
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |