Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.netty:netty-codec-http package, versions [ ,4.1.136.Final)[4.2.0.Final,4.2.16.Final)
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- published23 Jul 2026
- disclosed22 Jul 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 22 Jul 2026
NewCVE-2026-59899 (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 through the HttpContentEncoder. An attacker can cause unbounded memory consumption by sending a large number of HTTP/1.1 pipelined requests faster than the application can generate responses, leading to resource exhaustion.