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CVE-2026-73507 (GCVE-0-2026-73507)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 14:25 – Updated: 2026-08-15 03:16

Title

Netty: Denial of Service in XmlFrameDecoder via CPU Exhaustion

Summary

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.xml.XmlFrameDecoder.decode() failed to preserve closing-tag parser state across invocations, so an unauthenticated remote attacker could trickle-feed repeated </ sequences that repeatedly rescanned the accumulated buffer and exhausted an EventLoop thread's CPU, causing denial of service with a maxFrameLength of 1 MB. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-15 03:15 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

GitHub_M

References

5 references

URL	Tags
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https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/5b68c61f37a…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/bb2ff68a1fb…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
netty	netty	Affected: < 4.1.136.Final Affected: >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.16.Final

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GHSA-V74W-7MR3-4QG3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-24 16:53 – Updated: 2026-08-13 14:25

Summary

Netty: Denial of Service in XmlFrameDecoder via CPU Exhaustion

Details

Summary

An attacker can cause Denial of Service by sending a specially crafted malicious XML payload (e.g., repeated </ characters) to a Netty server utilizing XmlFrameDecoder, causing the server's EventLoop thread to exhaust CPU resources and become unresponsive.

Details

io.netty.handler.codec.xml.XmlFrameDecoder suffers from a vulnerability resulting in CPU exhaustion. When < followed by / is encountered, the decoder scans the remaining buffer for a closing >. Because the parser state is not saved between decode() invocations, an attacker can trickle-feed a payload of </ characters. This forces the decoder to repeatedly rescan the entire accumulated buffer. A 1MB maxFrameLength is enough to completely hang a server's thread while it loops endlessly.

Impact

Denial of Service via CPU Exhaustion. Any application utilizing Netty's XmlFrameDecoder is impacted. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a modest amount of malformed XML data to an exposed port.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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ubuntu-cve-2026-73507

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-08-14 00:00

Modified

2026-08-14 00:00

Summary

Details

Severity

7.5 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-73507	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73507	REPORT
	https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisorie…	REPORT
	https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/5b68c61f37a…	REPORT
	https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/bb2ff68a1fb…	REPORT
	https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/5b68c61f37a…	REPORT
	https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/bb2ff68a1fb…	REPORT
	https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty…	REPORT
	https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty…	REPORT

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WID-SEC-W-2026-2511

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2026-07-23 22:00 - Updated: 2026-08-13 22:00

Summary

Netty: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of Service

Severity

Mittel

Notes

Das BSI ist als Anbieter für die eigenen, zur Nutzung bereitgestellten Inhalte nach den allgemeinen Gesetzen verantwortlich. Nutzerinnen und Nutzer sind jedoch dafür verantwortlich, die Verwendung und/oder die Umsetzung der mit den Inhalten bereitgestellten Informationen sorgfältig im Einzelfall zu prüfen.

Produktbeschreibung: Netty ist ein asynchrones, ereignisgesteuertes Netzwerk-Anwendungs-Framework für die schnelle Entwicklung von wartbaren, hochleistungsfähigen Protokollservern und -clients.

Angriff: Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Netty ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.

Betroffene Betriebssysteme: - Linux - UNIX

CVE-2026-73507

Affected products

Known affected 2 products

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Open Source Netty <4.2.16.Final Open Source / Netty		<4.2.16.Final
Open Source Netty <4.1.136.Final Open Source / Netty		<4.1.136.Final

CVE-2026-73508

Affected products

Known affected 2 products

Product	Identifier	Version	Remediation
Open Source Netty <4.2.16.Final Open Source / Netty		<4.2.16.Final
Open Source Netty <4.1.136.Final Open Source / Netty		<4.1.136.Final

References

4 references

URL	Category
https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2…	self
https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvis…	self
https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisorie…	external
https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisorie…	external

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        "text": "Das BSI ist als Anbieter f\u00fcr die eigenen, zur Nutzung bereitgestellten Inhalte nach den allgemeinen Gesetzen verantwortlich. Nutzerinnen und Nutzer sind jedoch daf\u00fcr verantwortlich, die Verwendung und/oder die Umsetzung der mit den Inhalten bereitgestellten Informationen sorgf\u00e4ltig im Einzelfall zu pr\u00fcfen."
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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

Action not permitted

CVE-2026-73507 (GCVE-0-2026-73507)

GHSA-V74W-7MR3-4QG3

Summary

Details

Impact

ubuntu-cve-2026-73507

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

WID-SEC-W-2026-2511

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature