# Netty HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Frame Flood DoS via Zero-Byte Frame Bypass

Advisory record · `GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv` · `CVE-2026-33871`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.7 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-770](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Published:** 26 Mar 2026
- **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 26 Mar 2026, 18:49 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `io.netty:netty-codec-http2` (Maven): affected `<4.1.132.Final || >=4.2.0.Alpha1, <4.2.11.Final`; fixed in `4.1.132.Final`, `4.2.11.Final`

## Machine-written summary

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

> Netty's io.netty:netty-codec-http2 package is affected in versions below 4.1.132.Final and from 4.2.0.Alpha1 up to but not including 4.2.11.Final. A remote, unauthenticated user can send a flood of zero-byte CONTINUATION frames to a Netty HTTP/2 server, which bypasses the existing header size limit and forces the server to keep processing frames, exhausting CPU and making the server unresponsive. Upgrade to 4.1.132.Final or 4.2.11.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:** 0.013, the 71st percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv)
- [OSV: GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv)
- <https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33871>
- <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.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-w9fj-cfpg-grvv>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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