CVE-2026-46340CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-46340

High · published June 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
57.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In versions of netty-transport-sctp prior to 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, for each non-complete SctpMessage fragment the handler does `fragments.put(streamId, Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(frag, byteBuf))`, wrapping the previous accumulator and the new slice into a *new* CompositeByteBuf every time. After N fragments the accumulator is an N-deep chain of composites, each holding references and component arrays; readableBytes()/getBytes() on the final buffer recurse N levels. There is no limit on N, on total bytes, or on the number of streamIdentifiers an attacker can open (each gets its own map entry). A peer that never sets the `complete` flag can grow this structure indefinitely from tiny 1-byte DATA chunks. Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00849 · 57.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-06-12T19:16Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
netty/netty< 4.1.1354.1.135
netty/netty≥ 4.2.0, < 4.2.154.2.15
References (12)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JUN 14:19Z
    Netty: SCTP reassembly nests buffers without bound
    cvelistv5