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CVE-2026-93492

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2026-09-18 Modified: 2026-09-18

Description

A flaw was found in Netty's HTTP/2 HpackEncoder. A remote attacker can exploit this by sending HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames with a very large MAX_HEADER_TABLE_SIZE. This causes the HpackEncoder to store an excessive number of unique headers, leading to increased CPU usage and memory consumption, ultimately resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-1035

References