CVE-2022-41881 (GCVE-0-2022-41881)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-12 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-22 15:57
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Netty project is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework. In versions prior to 4.1.86.Final, a StackOverflowError can be raised when parsing a malformed crafted message due to an infinite recursion. This issue is patched in version 4.1.86.Final. There is no workaround, except using a custom HaProxyMessageDecoder.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-22 15:39 UTC
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
4 references
Impacted products
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