Advisory record · GHSA-2qj4-mmr9-4v2f

Netty: Memory Exhaustion in SctpMessageCompletionHandler

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0037 · 30th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 17 Aug 2026, 17:50 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
io.netty:netty-transport-sctpMaven>=4.2.0.Final, <4.2.17.Final || <4.1.137.Final4.2.17.Final, 4.1.137.Final
Identifiers
GHSA-2qj4-mmr9-4v2f · CVE-2026-59902
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Published
17 Aug 2026
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Netty's netty-transport-sctp package, versions 4.2.0.Final up to but not including 4.2.17.Final, and 4.1.x versions before 4.1.137.Final, are affected. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send large SCTP fragments that the SctpMessageCompletionHandler buffers without a total byte limit, exhausting server memory and causing an OutOfMemoryError. Upgrade to 4.2.17.Final or 4.1.137.Final. No workaround is listed.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0037, the 30th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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