CVE-2026-33871 PUBLISHED

Netty HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Frame Flood DoS via Zero-Byte Frame Bypass

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 24.03.2026 Published: 27.03.2026 Updated: 27.03.2026

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. In versions prior to 4.1.132.Final and 4.2.10.Final, a remote user can trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) against a Netty HTTP/2 server by sending a flood of CONTINUATION frames. The server's lack of a limit on the number of CONTINUATION frames, combined with a bypass of existing size-based mitigations using zero-byte frames, allows an user to cause excessive CPU consumption with minimal bandwidth, rendering the server unresponsive. Versions 4.1.132.Final and 4.2.10.Final fix the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor netty
Product netty
Versions
  • Version < 4.1.132.Final is affected
  • Version >= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.10.Final is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE