Description
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In netty-codec-compression versions 4.1.124.Final and below, and netty-codec versions 4.2.4.Final and below, when supplied with specially crafted input, BrotliDecoder and certain other decompression decoders will allocate a large number of reachable byte buffers, which can lead to denial of service. BrotliDecoder.decompress has no limit in how often it calls pull, decompressing data 64K bytes at a time. The buffers are saved in the output list, and remain reachable until OOM is hit. This is fixed in versions 4.1.125.Final of netty-codec and 4.2.5.Final of netty-codec-compression.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-3p8m-j85q-pgmj
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/9d804c54ce962408ae6418255a83a13924f7145d
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0006
EPSS Percentile
19.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-409
Status
published
Products (3)
io.netty/netty-codec
0 - 4.1.125.FinalMaven
io.netty/netty-codec-compression
4.2.0.Alpha1 - 4.2.5.FinalMaven
netty/netty
< 4.1.125
Published
Sep 04, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026