CVE-2022-41881

Aliases:GHSA-fx2c-96vj-985v
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 16
Modified
Published: 12 Dec 2022, 00:00
Last modified:22 Apr 2025, 15:57

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
40/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.45% LOW
0% probability +0.33%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Dec 2022, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2025, 15:57
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Netty project is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework. In versions prior to 4.1.86.Final, a StackOverflowError can be raised when parsing a malformed crafted message due to an infinite recursion. This issue is patched in version 4.1.86.Final. There is no workaround, except using a custom HaProxyMessageDecoder.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.45%• Percentile: 64%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-674•Uncontrolled Recursion

    The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    10.0 | 11.0

  • io.netty•netty-codec-haproxy

    < 4.1.86.Final

  • netty•netty

    < 4.1.86.Final | < 4.1.86

References (7)