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CVE-2026-44248 (GCVE-0-2026-44248)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-05-13 18:23 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:10
VLAI
Title
Netty: Resource exhaustion in MqttDecoder
Summary
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, the MQTT 5 header Properties section is parsed and buffered before any message size limit is applied. Specifically, in MqttDecoder, the decodeVariableHeader() method is called before the bytesRemainingBeforeVariableHeader > maxBytesInMessage check. The decodeVariableHeader() can call other methods which will call decodeProperties(). Effectively, Netty does not apply any limits to the size of the properties being decoded. Additionally, because MqttDecoder extends ReplayingDecoder, Netty will repeatedly re-parse the enormous Properties sections and buffer the bytes in memory, until the entire thing parses to completion. This can cause high resource usage in both CPU and memory. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
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Impacted products
10 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| netty | netty |
Affected:
>= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final
Affected: < 4.1.133.Final |
|
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Affected:
>= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final
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cpe:/a:redhat:amq_broker:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:camel_spring_boot:4 |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Data Grid 8 |
cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_data_grid:8 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_fuse:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_bpms_platform:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:jbosseapxp |
|
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cpe:/a:redhat:red_hat_single_sign_on:7 |
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CVE-2026-44248 (GCVE-0-2026-44248)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 18:23 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:10
VLAI
Title
Netty: Resource exhaustion in MqttDecoder
Summary
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Severity
5.3 (Medium)
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
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Affected:
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cpe:/a:redhat:amq_broker:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:camel_spring_boot:4 |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Data Grid 8 |
cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_data_grid:8 |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Fuse 7 |
cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_fuse:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_bpms_platform:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:7 |
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cpe:/a:redhat:jbosseapxp |
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