CVE-2026-42583: Netty

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, Lz4FrameDecoder allocates a ByteBuf of size decompressedLength (up to 32 MB per block) before LZ4 runs. A peer only needs a 21-byte header plus compressedLength payload bytes - 22 bytes if compressedLength == 1 - to force that allocation. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

Affected products

• Netty Netty: before 4.1.133 (fixed in 4.1.133); from 4.2.0, before 4.2.13 (fixed in 4.2.13)

Published 2026-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.