A flaw was found in Netty's HttpServerCodec.
CVE-2026-93491
A flaw was found in Netty's HttpServerCodec. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by pipelining HTTP/1.1 requests on a single connection and withholding reads. This action causes the methodOverflowQueue to grow without limit, leading to unbounded heap memory consumption and a denial of service due to memory exhaustion.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 18 September 2026
- Last updated
- 6 November 2026
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
At the source
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69440
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69470
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:70257
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:83612
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95760
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:95761
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93491
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536891
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.138.Final
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.18.Final
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