Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.netty:netty-codec-http package, versions [4.1.0.Final,4.1.136.Final)[4.2.0.Final,4.2.16.Final)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IONETTY-18170213
  • published22 Jul 2026
  • disclosed21 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-56745  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

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

Overview

io.netty:netty-codec-http is a network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the SpdyHttpDecoder. An attacker can cause native memory exhaustion by sending a client-initiated SYN_STREAM frame with FLAG_FIN=0 followed by a RST_STREAM frame or by exceeding the maximum content length, which leads to unreleased pooled ByteBuf allocations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1