GHSA-v74w-7mr3-4qg3: Netty: Denial of Service in XmlFrameDecoder via CPU Exhaustion
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An attacker can cause Denial of Service by sending a specially crafted malicious XML payload (e.g., repeated </ characters) to a Netty server utilizing XmlFrameDecoder, causing the server’s EventLoop thread to exhaust CPU resources and become unresponsive.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-v74w-7mr3-4qg3
- github.com/netty/netty/commit/5b68c61f37aa4a3045cba624cbea239655c9003b
- github.com/netty/netty/commit/bb2ff68a1fb71cb4b0eb9a9e17b66c52aff680c6
- github.com/netty/netty/pull/17063
- github.com/netty/netty/pull/17065
- github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.136.Final
- github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.16.Final
- github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-v74w-7mr3-4qg3
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-73507
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