CVE-2026-33870
This High severity HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability was introduced in version 8.9.0, 9.0.1, 9.1.0, 9.2.0, 9.3.1, 9.4.0, 9.5.1, 10.0.2, 10.1.0, 10.2.0 of Confluence Data Center. This HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability, with a CVSS Score of 7.5 and a CVSS Vector of CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N allows an unauthenticated attacker to expose assets in your environment susceptible to exploitation which has no impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, no impact to availability, and requires no user interaction. Atlassian recommends that Confluence Data Center customers upgrade to latest version, if you are unable to do so, upgrade your instance to one of the specified supported fixed versions: * Confluence Data Center 10.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 10.2.10 * Confluence Data Center 9.2: Upgrade to a release greater than or equal to 9.2.19 See the release notes (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-notes-327.html). You can download the latest version of Confluence Data Center from the download center (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/download-archives). The National Vulnerability Database provides the following description for this vulnerability: Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. In versions prior to 4.1.132.Final and 4.2.10.Final, Netty incorrectly parses quoted strings in HTTP/1.1 chunked transfer encoding extension values, enabling request smuggling attacks. Versions 4.1.132.Final and 4.2.10.Final fix the issue.
EPSS 0.03% · 8.4th percentile
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Atlassian | Confluence Data Center | |
| Atlassian | Jira Service Management Data Center | |
| Atlassian | Jira Software Data Center | |
| Atlassian | Bamboo Data Center |
Exploit Intelligence
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-pwqr-wmgm-9rr8 (nist-nvd)
- CIRCL published-proof-of-concept: CVE-2026-33870 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2026-33870 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2026-33870 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2026-33870 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL seen: CVE-2026-33870 (circl-sighting)
- https://w4ke.info/2025/06/18/funky-chunks.html (circl)
- https://w4ke.info/2025/10/29/funky-chunks-2.html (circl)
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110 (circl)
- dependency-suppression.xml (github-poc)
…and 44 more exploits
Timeline
- Mar 25, 2026 PoC Published
- Mar 26, 2026 CVE Published
- Mar 27, 2026 CVE Updated
- Mar 27, 2026 Security Advisory
- Mar 27, 2026 PoC Published
- Mar 27, 2026 PoC Published
- Mar 28, 2026 EPSS Score
- Mar 31, 2026 PoC Published
- Apr 14, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Apr 14, 2026 Security Advisory
- Apr 14, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Apr 14, 2026 Security Advisory