VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2026-73507
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.79%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-13
Last modified2026-09-23
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.xml.XmlFrameDecoder.decode() failed to preserve closing-tag parser state across invocations, so an unauthenticated remote attacker could trickle-feed repeated </ sequences that repeatedly rescanned the accumulated buffer and exhausted an EventLoop thread's CPU, causing denial of service with a maxFrameLength of 1 MB. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.
Weakness classification
- security-advisories@github.com: CWE-400
Primary references
- security-advisories@github.com — Patch
- security-advisories@github.com — Patch
- security-advisories@github.com — Release Notes
- security-advisories@github.com — Release Notes
- security-advisories@github.com — Vendor Advisory