5.3

CVE-2026-44248

Netty: Resource exhaustion in MqttDecoder

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, the MQTT 5 header Properties section is parsed and buffered before any message size limit is applied. Specifically, in MqttDecoder, the decodeVariableHeader() method is called before the bytesRemainingBeforeVariableHeader > maxBytesInMessage check. The decodeVariableHeader() can call other methods which will call decodeProperties(). Effectively, Netty does not apply any limits to the size of the properties being decoded. Additionally, because MqttDecoder extends ReplayingDecoder, Netty will repeatedly re-parse the enormous Properties sections and buffer the bytes in memory, until the entire thing parses to completion. This can cause high resource usage in both CPU and memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.
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Herstellernetty
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Produkt netty
Version >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final
Status affected
Version < 4.1.133.Final
Status affected
Herstellerio.netty
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Produkt netty-codec-mqtt
Version >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final
Status affected
Version < 4.1.133.Final
Status affected
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.04% 0.117
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
security-advisories@github.com 5.3 3.9 1.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.