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CVE-2026-42579

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-05-13 Modified: 2026-08-13

Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, Netty's DNS codec does not enforce RFC 1035 domain name constraints during either encoding or decoding. This creates a bidirectional attack surface: malicious DNS responses can exploit the decoder, and user-influenced hostnames can exploit the encoder. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

Affected Platforms

Netty Netty

Weakness Type

CWE-20, CWE-400, CWE-626, CWE-1286

References