CVE-2025-55163
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to versions 4.1.124.Final and 4.2.4.Final, Netty is vulnerable to MadeYouReset DDoS. This is a logical vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, that uses malformed HTTP/2 control frames in order to break the max concurrent streams limit - which results in resource exhaustion and distributed denial of service. This issue has been patched in versions 4.1.124.Final and 4.2.4.Final.
CVSS Metrics
- v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- v4.0•HIGH•Score: 8.2CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- 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: 1.05%• Percentile: 63%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-770•Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.
Affected Systems
- chainguard•akhq
< 0.26.0-r3
- chainguard•apache-hop
< 2.15.0-r1
- chainguard•apache-hop-fips
< 2.15.0-r1
- chainguard•apache-nifi
< 2.5.0-r3
- chainguard•apache-nifi-compat
< 2.5.0-r3
- chainguard•apache-nifi-toolkit
< 2.5.0-r3
- chainguard•apache-pulsar
< 4.0.6-r1
- chainguard•apache-pulsar-compat
< 4.0.6-r1
- chainguard•apicurio-registry
< 3.0.12-r1
- chainguard•apicurio-registry-nginx-config
< 3.0.12-r1
- chainguard•apicurio-registry-ui
< 3.0.12-r1
- chainguard•camunda-zeebe-8.6
< 8.6.24-r1
- chainguard•camunda-zeebe-8.6-compat
< 8.6.24-r1
- chainguard•camunda-zeebe-8.7
< 8.7.10-r1
- chainguard•camunda-zeebe-8.7-compat
< 8.7.10-r1
- chainguard•celeborn-0.5
< 0.5.4-r26 | all
- chainguard•celeborn-0.6
< 0.6.3-r7
- chainguard•commercial-elasticsearch-8.17
all
- chainguard•docker-selenium-standalone-chrome
all
- chainguard•druid
< 34.0.0-r1
- chainguard•druid-compat
< 34.0.0-r1
- chainguard•elasticsearch-8.19
< 8.19.2-r12
- chainguard•elasticsearch-8.19-config
< 8.19.2-r12
- chainguard•elasticsearch-8.19-iamguarded
< 8.19.2-r12
- chainguard•elasticsearch-9.0
< 9.0.7-r0
- chainguard•elasticsearch-9.0-config
< 9.0.7-r0
- chainguard•elasticsearch-9.0-iamguarded
< 9.0.7-r0
- chainguard•elasticsearch-fips-9.0
< 9.0.8-r0
- chainguard•elasticsearch-fips-9.0-bitnami
< 9.0.8-r0
- chainguard•elasticsearch-fips-9.0-config
< 9.0.8-r0
- chainguard•elasticsearch-fips-9.1
< 9.1.3-r0
- chainguard•elasticsearch-fips-9.1-config
< 9.1.3-r0
- chainguard•flyway
< 11.11.0-r1
- chainguard•grpc-java-fips-1.56.0-m2
< 1.56.0-r6
- chainguard•hadoop-fips-3.3.6
< 3.3.6-r3
- chainguard•hadoop-fips-3.4.2
all
- chainguard•hadoop-fips-3.5
all | < 3.5.0-r12
- chainguard•infinispan-15.1
< 15.1.7-r1
- chainguard•infinispan-15.1-compat
< 15.1.7-r1
- chainguard•infinispan-15.1-images
< 15.1.7-r1
- chainguard•infinispan-15.2
< 15.2.5-r1
- chainguard•infinispan-15.2-compat
< 15.2.5-r1
- chainguard•infinispan-15.2-images
< 15.2.5-r1
- chainguard•kafka_exporter-strimzi-compat
< 0.47.0-r3
- chainguard•kafka-strimzi-compat
< 0.47.0-r3
- chainguard•keycloak
< 26.3.2-r2
- chainguard•keycloak-26.2
< 26.2.5-r1
- chainguard•keycloak-26.2-compat
< 26.2.5-r1
- chainguard•keycloak-26.2-iamguarded-compat
< 26.2.5-r1
- chainguard•knative-kafka-broker-1.17-dispatcher-loom
< 1.17.3-r5
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References (12)
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-prj3-ccx8-p6x4
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/767506
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/16/1
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55163
- https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java/commit/6462ef9a11980e168c21d90bbc7245c728fd1a7a
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/be53dc3c9acd9af2e20d0c3c07cd77115a594cf1
- https://github.com/netty/netty
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-55163
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-55163
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-55163
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8654-1
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/55xxx/CVE-2025-55163.json