CVE-2026-44242 PUBLISHED

Micronaut Framework: Unbounded bundleCache in ResourceBundleMessageSource Allows Memory Exhaustion via Accept-Language Header

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 05.05.2026 Published: 12.05.2026 Updated: 12.05.2026

Micronaut Framework is a JVM-based full stack Java framework designed for building modular, easily testable JVM applications. Prior to 4.10.22, the bundleCache is keyed by (Locale, baseName) where the locale originates from the HTTP Accept-Language header. In applications that explicitly register a ResourceBundleMessageSource bean and serve HTML error responses, an unauthenticated attacker can exhaust heap memory by sending requests with large numbers of unique Accept-Language values, each causing a new entry in the unbounded bundleCache. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.10.22.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 3.7

Product Status

Vendor micronaut-projects
Product micronaut-core
Versions
  • Version < 4.10.22 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE