GHSA-v74w-7mr3-4qg3 - Vulnerability details

7.5/10

CVSS 3.1

GHSA-v74w-7mr3-4qg3

false_positive Published 2026-07-24 Updated 2026-08-13

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Affected versions

5.6

5.6.1 5.6.0

5.5

5.5.17 5.5.16 5.5.15 5.5.14 5.5.13 5.5.12 5.5.11 5.5.10 5.5.9 5.5.8 5.5.7 5.5.6 5.5.5 5.5.4 5.5.3 5.5.2 5.5.1 5.5.0

5.4

5.4.11 5.4.10 5.4.9 5.4.8 5.4.7 5.4.6 5.4.5 5.4.4 5.4.3 5.4.2 5.4.1 5.4.0

Fixed in versions 5.7.0, 5.6.2, 5.5.18 and 5.4.12

Score

7.5 CVSS 3.1 GITHUB CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

### Summary An attacker can cause Denial of Service by sending a specially crafted malicious XML payload (e.g., repeated `</` characters) to a Netty server utilizing XmlFrameDecoder, causing the server's EventLoop thread to exhaust CPU resources and become unresponsive. ### Details `io.netty.handler.codec.xml.XmlFrameDecoder` suffers from a vulnerability resulting in CPU exhaustion. When `<` followed by `/` is encountered, the decoder scans the remaining buffer for a closing `>`. Because the parser state is not saved between `decode()` invocations, an attacker can trickle-feed a payload of `</` characters. This forces the decoder to repeatedly rescan the entire accumulated buffer. A 1MB `maxFrameLength` is enough to completely hang a server's thread while it loops endlessly. ### Impact Denial of Service via CPU Exhaustion. Any application utilizing Netty's XmlFrameDecoder is impacted. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a modest amount of malformed XML data to an exposed port.

Same vulnerability as

CVE-2026-73507 resolved according to EUVD-2026-58083

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