Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.netty:netty-codec-stomp package, versions [,4.1.136.Final)[4.2.0.Alpha1,4.2.16.Final)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-17972461
  • published14 Jul 2026
  • disclosed14 Jul 2026
  • creditvioletagg

Introduced: 14 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-44891  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade io.netty:netty-codec-stomp to version 4.1.136.Final, 4.2.16.Final or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling through the StompSubframeDecoder process. An attacker can exhaust system memory and cause a server crash by sending a large number of short headers in a single STOMP frame, resulting in an OutOfMemoryError.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1