7.5

CVE-2026-55831: netty Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-55831DEBIAN-CVE-2026-55831CGA-22h6-f769-h2jw
Published 20-07-2026Last modified 23-07-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-55831 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in netty. EPSS estimates a 0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
40/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.66%
0%100%
Low · +0.23 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1github

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 3

Timeline

  1. 20-07-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-07-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, Netty's SPDY SETTINGS decoder accepts a peer-declared SETTINGS entry count up to the 24-bit frame-length limit and materializes every unique setting ID in `DefaultSpdySettingsFrame`, allowing a remote SPDY/3.1 peer to send a syntactically valid roughly 2 MiB SETTINGS frame that creates 262144 map entries and amplifies network input into heap growth and ordered-map insertion work. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.66%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

51%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.23 pp

From 0.44% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.66%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Netty

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard200 products
  • airbyte-server< 2.0.0-r8
  • airbyte-server-fips< 2.0.0-r10
  • akhq< 0.27.1-r12
  • apache-activemq-artemis< 2.55.0-r1
  • apache-camel-karavan-devmode< 4.18.1-r8

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