Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.netty:netty-codec-http2 package, versions [,4.1.135.Final)[4.2.0.Alpha1,4.2.15.Final)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-17337010
  • published14 Jun 2026
  • disclosed12 Jun 2026
  • creditAshley Tolbert,Jonathan Looney

Introduced: 12 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-50560  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-http2 to version 4.1.135.Final, 4.2.15.Final or higher.

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http2 is a HTTP2 sub package for the netty library, an event-driven asynchronous network application framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the handling of the SETTINGS_MAX_HEADER_LIST_SIZE setting, when acting as a server. An attacker can cause the server to trigger exceptions during response header writing, by sending artificially small header size limits that block other clients' requests.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1