CVE-2026-118488 PUBLISHED

Heap exhaustion via unbounded simple string or bulk string allocation in Vert.x Redis client

Assigner: eclipse
Reserved: 28.10.2026 Published: 03.11.2026 Updated: 03.11.2026

In Eclipse Vert.x versions [4.0.0, 4.5.35] or [5.0.0, 5.2.2], when a malicious server keeps sending bytes on an EOL-terminated line (not length-prefixed, for example a simple string [1]), we'll keep growing the buffer without bounds, eventually leading to an OOM. We need to have a configurable limit for EOL-terminated lines.

If a malicious server sends a specially crafted RESP response (for example a bulk string [2] with missing CRLF trailer), the parser enters an infinite loop where it keeps parsing the same buffer and pushing the same response to the caller, which may lead e.g. to an OOM if the consumer just buffers the responses. We must fix the parser to avoid this infinite looping.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.9

Product Status

Vendor Eclipse Foundation
Product Eclipse Vert.x
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.0.0 to 4.5.35 (incl.)
  • affected from 5.0.0 to 5.2.2 (incl.)

Credits

  • Ladislav Thon finder

References