CVE-2026-45416
Essential information
- Published
- 12/06/2026 17:16
- Modified
- 12/06/2026 15:55
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 7.5 HIGH (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-770
- EPSS (First)
- P13.1% EPSS percentile: rank of this vulnerability versus all others. Higher percentile = more likely to be exploited. Learn more (score 0.00042)
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H—
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- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
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Description
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, SslClientHelloHandler.decode() reads the 24-bit TLS handshake length and, when the ClientHello does not fit in the first record, eagerly allocates `ctx.alloc().buffer(handshakeLength)` (line 161). The guard at line 140 is `handshakeLength > maxClientHelloLength && maxClientHelloLength != 0`, and the commonly-used SniHandler/AbstractSniHandler constructors (SniHandler(Mapping), SniHandler(AsyncMapping), AbstractSniHandler()) pass maxClientHelloLength=0 and handshakeTimeoutMillis=0, so the length guard is disabled and no timeout is scheduled. A 16 MiB request exceeds the default pooled chunk size and becomes a huge/unpooled allocation performed immediately. The buffer is retained in the handler until the channel closes. Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue.
NVD status
- Status
- Undergoing Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- [email protected]
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| netty / netty | cpe:2.3:a:netty:netty:4.1.135.Final:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netty / netty | cpe:2.3:a:netty:netty:<4.1.135.Final:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netty / netty | cpe:2.3:a:netty:netty:4.2.15.Final:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| netty / netty | cpe:2.3:a:netty:netty:<4.2.15.Final:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |