Red Hat Lightwell has released io.netty:netty-handler-proxy 4.1.100.Final-rhlw-00001 with a backported security fix.
CVE-2026-42578: Netty: HTTP Header Injection via HttpProxyHandler Disabled Validation
This patched artifact is a drop-in replacement for io.netty:netty-handler-proxy 4.1.100.Final from Maven Central.
{
"backport_base_version": "4.1.100.Final",
"remediated_version": "4.1.100.Final-rhlw-00001",
"repository_url": "https://packages.redhat.com/lightwell/java/remediated/"
}
"https://github.com/project-lightwell/lightwell-osv/blob/main/advisories/RHLW-2026-05e60f2154dee59a.json"