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CVE-2025-58057

Netty's BrotliDecoder is vulnerable to DoS via zip bomb style attack

Published: Sep 3, 2025Updated: Sep 8, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-409

Description

Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. In netty-codec-compression versions 4.1.124.Final and below, and netty-codec versions 4.2.4.Final and below, when supplied with specially crafted input, BrotliDecoder and certain other decompression decoders will allocate a large number of reachable byte buffers, which can lead to denial of service. BrotliDecoder.decompress has no limit in how often it calls pull, decompressing data 64K bytes at a time. The buffers are saved in the output list, and remain reachable until OOM is hit. This is fixed in versions 4.1.125.Final of netty-codec and 4.2.5.Final of netty-codec-compression.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High

Weaknesses

Affected Products

nettyoss-projectOSS Librariesaka io.netty:netty, netty-incubator-codec-ohttp
mavenpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

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Timeline

Published
Sep 3, 2025
Last Updated
Sep 8, 2025

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