CVE-2026-42582
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
13/05/2026
Last modified:
10/07/2026
Description
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
Impact
Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:netty:netty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 4.2.0 (including) | 4.2.13 (excluding) |
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