CVE-2014-3488: Netty

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SslHandler in Netty before 3.9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a crafted SSLv2Hello message.

Affected products

• Netty Netty: up to and including 3.9.1.1; version 3.6.0 only; version 3.6.1 only; version 3.6.2 only; version 3.6.3 only; version 3.6.4 only; …

Published 2014-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.