CVE-2025-55163: Netty affected by MadeYouReset HTTP/2 DDoS vulnerability
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The MadeYouReset DDoS vulnerability is a logical vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, that uses malformed HTTP/2 control frames in order to break the max concurrent streams limit - which results in resource exhaustion and distributed denial of service.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-prj3-ccx8-p6x4
- github.com/grpc/grpc-java/commit/6462ef9a11980e168c21d90bbc7245c728fd1a7a
- github.com/netty/netty
- github.com/netty/netty/commit/be53dc3c9acd9af2e20d0c3c07cd77115a594cf1
- github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-prj3-ccx8-p6x4
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55163
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/767506
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