# Netty's Lack of Lifecycle Cleanup Leads to Pooled ByteBuf Leak in RedisArrayAggregator

Advisory record · `GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm` · `CVE-2026-48006`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.7 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-401](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html) · [CWE-772](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/772.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Published:** 11 Jun 2026
- **Updated:** 18 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 11 Jun 2026, 13:26 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `io.netty:netty-codec-redis` (Maven): affected `>=4.2.0.Final, <4.2.15.Final || <4.1.135.Final`; fixed in `4.2.15.Final`, `4.1.135.Final`

## Machine-written summary

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

> Netty's netty-codec-redis package, versions 4.2.0.Final before 4.2.15.Final and 4.1.x before 4.1.135.Final, has a memory leak in its RedisArrayAggregator handler. When a Redis pipeline connection closes before an array aggregate completes, pooled direct-memory buffers are never released. A remote network peer can repeatedly open and drop connections to exhaust the shared direct-memory pool, causing allocation failures for other Netty channels in the process. Upgrade to 4.2.15.Final or 4.1.135.Final.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.7 High, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0074, the 54th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm)
- [OSV: GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm)
- <https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-6jv9-x5w9-2ccm>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-48006>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37390>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41951>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50085>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53644>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53645>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53646>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53806>
- <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48006>
- <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488433>
- <https://github.com/netty/netty>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

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