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CVE-2026-59902: Netty: Memory Exhaustion in SctpMessageCompletionHandler

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.36% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
Fixed version: io.netty:netty-transport-sctp (Maven) 4.2.17.Final, 4.1.137.Final; netty (openSUSE:Tumbleweed) 4.1.138-1.1; netty-tcnative (SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7) 2.0.84-150200.3.51.1.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to io.netty:netty-transport-sctp (Maven) 4.2.17.Final, 4.1.137.Final; netty (openSUSE:Tumbleweed) 4.1.138-1.1; netty-tcnative (SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7) 2.0.84-150200.3.51.1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.17.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.sctp.SctpMessageCompletionHandler limits incomplete messages and fragment counts but not maxBufferedBytes, allowing unauthenticated peers to exhaust memory with large SCTP fragments. This issue is fixed in versions 4.1.137.Final and 4.2.17.Final.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Published: Aug 17, 2026
Updated: Sep 23, 2026
EPSS: 0.3% · 30th percentile
CWE: CWE-400

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · GitHub_M: 7.5; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
netty	netty	cpe:2.3:a:netty:netty

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

netty nettybefore 4.1.137
netty netty4.2.0 and later · before 4.2.17

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

netty netty
- < 4.1.137.Final, >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.17.Finalaffected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected range	Fix
Debian:12	netty	from 0	—
Maven	io.netty:netty-transport-sctp	from 4.2.0.Final · before 4.2.17.Final	4.2.17.Final
Maven	io.netty:netty-transport-sctp	before 4.1.137.Final	4.1.137.Final
openSUSE:Tumbleweed	netty	before 4.1.138-1.1	4.1.138-1.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7	netty-tcnative	before 2.0.84-150200.3.51.1	2.0.84-150200.3.51.1
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7	netty	before 4.1.138-150200.4.56.1	4.1.138-150200.4.56.1

Same product

netty: all records

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2026-73507Aug 13, 2026 · Netty: Denial of Service in XmlFrameDecoder via CPU Exhaustion
30Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-73508Aug 13, 2026 · Netty: Memory Leak in DNS Record Decoder via Malformed Domain Names
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-59903Aug 17, 2026 · Netty: Cache Poisoning and Information Disclosure via CORS Vary Header Overwrite
30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
Maven:io.netty:netty-transport-sctp	4.1.137.Final	Package registry (OSV)
Maven:io.netty:netty-transport-sctp	4.2.17.Final	Package registry (OSV)
opensuse:netty	4.1.138-1.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed	Package registry (OSV)
suse:netty	4.1.138-150200.4.56.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7	Package registry (OSV)
suse:netty-tcnative	2.0.84-150200.3.51.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7	Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

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34Monitor
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34Monitor
CVE-2026-10066140 days apartNetty HTTP/3 QPACK Prefixed Integer DoS via Unbounded Accumulation
34Monitor
CVE-2026-10066240 days apartNetty HTTP/3 QPACK encoder-stream unbounded memory exhaustion DoS
34Monitor
CVE-2026-735074 days apartNetty: Denial of Service in XmlFrameDecoder via CPU Exhaustion
30Monitor
CVE-2026-5681927 days apartNetty: HTTP/2 decompression leaks ByteBuf reference count when the decompressor channel is already closed (Direct memory leak / OOM DoS)
30Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
No account or password is required.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-secondary

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-400 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1function expand(node) {
2  return node.children.map(expand);
3}

Fixed

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;
2function expand(node, depth = 0) {
3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");
4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));
5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Endpoint Denial of ServiceT1499

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:45 PM UTC

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References

github.com/netty/netty/commit/1b5abc6443b63726c72cdd285af2feb7ddbb8ff7

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