CVE-2026-42582 HIGH

CVE-2026-42582: Netty: HTTP/3 QPACK literal unbounded allocation

Vendor Netty
Product netty
Weakness CWE-770 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
Published May 13, 2026
Last update May 13, 2026

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final, when decoding header blocks, the non-Huffman branch of io.netty.handler.codec.http3.QpackDecoder#decodeHuffmanEncodedLiteral may execute new byte[length] for a string literal before verifying that length bytes are actually present in the compressed field section. The wire encoding allows a very large length to be expressed in few bytes. There is no check that length <= in.readableBytes() before new byte[length]. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 13, 2026 CVE published
May 13, 2026 Record updated