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Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, Netty's DNS codec does not enforce RFC 1035 domain name constraints during either encoding or decoding. This creates a bidirectional attack surface: malicious DNS responses can exploit the decoder, and user-influenced hostnames can exploit the encoder. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-28 | Published 2026-05-13 | Updated 2026-05-18 | Assigner GitHub_M




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

Problem types

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-626: Null Byte Interaction Error (Poison Null Byte)

Product status

>= 4.2.0.Alpha1, < 4.2.13.Final
affected

< 4.1.133.Final
affected

References

github.com/.../netty/security/advisories/GHSA-cm33-6792-r9fm exploit

github.com/.../netty/security/advisories/GHSA-cm33-6792-r9fm

cve.org (CVE-2026-42579)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-42579)

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