CVE-2026-42577
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.05%Netty epoll transport denial of service via RST on half-closed TCP connection
Published: 5/6/2026Modified: 5/14/2026
Description
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. From 4.2.0.Final to 4.2.13.Final , Netty's epoll transport fails to detect and close TCP connections that receive a RST after being half-closed, leading to stale channels that are never cleaned up and, in some code paths, a 100% CPU busy-loop in the event loop thread. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/nettyfrom 0
- Maven/io.netty:netty-transport-native-epoll>= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.13.Final
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42577
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-42577
- PATCHhttps://github.com/netty/netty
- WEBhttps://github.com/netty/netty/commit/0ec3d97fab376e243d328ac95fbd288ba0f6e22d
- WEBhttps://github.com/netty/netty/pull/16689
- WEBhttps://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-rwm7-x88c-3g2p