Resource exhaustion in Netty - CVE-2026-42587
Published: May 5, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU130215
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-42587
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Netty
Netty
Software vendor:
Netty project
Netty project
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled resource consumption in HttpContentDecompressor and DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener when processing compressed HTTP request bodies with Content-Encoding set to br, zstd, or snappy. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted compressed payload to cause a denial of service.
The configured maxAllocation limit is enforced for gzip and deflate, but is silently ignored for brotli, zstd, and snappy. The issue affects both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 handling.
Remediation
Install security update from vendor's website.