HumanCellAtlas/data-consumer-vignettes

Remediate High Netty vulnerability

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Snyk reports the following High severity vulnerability in HumanCellAtlas/data-consumer-vignettes. Please remediate by the end of Q1 Milestone 1.

Description

io.netty:netty

Suggested Remediation

Upgrade io.netty:netty to version 3.9.8.Final, 3.10.3.Final or higher.

Details

io.netty:netty is a NIO client server framework which enables quick and easy development of network applications such as protocol servers and clients. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Disclosure. It does not validate cookie name and value characters, allowing attackers to potentially bypass the httpOnly flag on sensitive cookies.

Can you clarify where you found netty being used in the consumer vignettes repo?

PR #83 should remediate this vulnerability, please re-open if not