Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.netty:netty-codec-mqtt package, versions [,4.1.133.Final)[4.2.0.Alpha1,4.2.13.Final)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-16439015
  • published7 May 2026
  • disclosed7 May 2026
  • creditChris Vest

Introduced: 7 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-44248  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-mqtt to version 4.1.133.Final, 4.2.13.Final or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to the lack of size limits applied to the Properties section during the decoding process. An attacker can cause excessive CPU and memory consumption by sending MQTT messages with extremely large Properties sections.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1