Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.xml.XmlFrameDecoder.decode() failed to preserve closing-tag parser state across invocations, so an unauthenticated remote attacker could trickle-feed repeated </ sequences that repeatedly rescanned the accumulated buffer and exhausted an EventLoop thread's CPU, causing denial of service with a maxFrameLength of 1 MB. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.
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GHSA-v74w-7mr3-4qg3 | Netty: Denial of Service in XmlFrameDecoder via CPU Exhaustion |
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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:15:00 +0000
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| Description | Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.xml.XmlFrameDecoder.decode() failed to preserve closing-tag parser state across invocations, so an unauthenticated remote attacker could trickle-feed repeated </ sequences that repeatedly rescanned the accumulated buffer and exhausted an EventLoop thread's CPU, causing denial of service with a maxFrameLength of 1 MB. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final. | |
| Title | Netty: Denial of Service in XmlFrameDecoder via CPU Exhaustion | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-13T14:25:34.073Z
Reserved: 2026-08-12T19:00:33.736Z
Link: CVE-2026-73507
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-13T15:20:17.287
Modified: 2026-08-13T15:20:17.287
Link: CVE-2026-73507
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-13T17:30:07Z
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Github GHSA