Advisory record · GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv

Denial of Service attack on windows app using netty

CVSS 5.5 MediumEPSS 0.0041 · 35th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 12 Nov 2024, 19:53 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
io.netty:netty-commonMaven<4.1.115.Final4.1.115.Final
Identifiers
GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv · CVE-2024-47535
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Published
12 Nov 2024
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

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

netty-common versions before 4.1.115.Final are affected. A local user on a Windows system can create a very large file in a location Netty reads during OS detection, which exhausts JVM memory and crashes the Java application. Upgrade to 4.1.115.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

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0041, the 35th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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.