Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty-http package, versions [,1.3.7)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-IOPROJECTREACTORNETTY-19267394
  • published26 Aug 2026
  • disclosed20 Aug 2026
  • creditYu Bao from PayPal Cyber Security Team, Qifeng Fang

Introduced: 20 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-47874  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade io.projectreactor.netty:reactor-netty-http to version 1.3.7 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the handling of HTTP/1.1 pipelined requests over a single connection. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by sending multiple pipelined requests, potentially leading to resource exhaustion and service disruption.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1