CVE-2026-55831: netty Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 3Timeline
- 20-07-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 23-07-2026Last 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- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundNetty
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root cause- CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionThe product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
- CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingThe 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
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
1 vendor · 200 products · Showing 200 of 307. Use Open JSON for the complete list.
References
11 links- github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-6jqx-86gh-f27wX Refsource CONFIRMREPORTAdvisoryWEBExploitVendor Advisory
- github.com/netty/netty/commit/5b68c61f37aa4a3045cba624cbea239655c9003bX Refsource MISCREPORTFIXWEBPatch
- github.com/netty/netty/commit/bb2ff68a1fb71cb4b0eb9a9e17b66c52aff680c6X Refsource MISCREPORTFIXWEBPatch
Show all 11 references
- github.com/netty/nettyPACKAGE