CVE-2026-56816 PUBLISHED

Netty: Memory Exhaustion via HTTP/3 Reserved Frame Types

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 23.06.2026 Published: 21.07.2026 Updated: 21.07.2026

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to 4.2.16.Final, Netty's Http3FrameCodec buffers incoming data for HTTP/3 reserved frame types up to the wire-specified payload length without limits; decodeFrame trusts payLoadLength, allowing an attacker to open multiple QUIC streams and send reserved frames with very large payload lengths to cause memory exhaustion and denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 4.2.16.Final.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor netty
Product netty
Versions
  • Version < 4.2.16.Final is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE