CVE-2025-55163

Summary

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to versions 4.1.124.Final and 4.2.4.Final, Netty is vulnerable to MadeYouReset DDoS. This is a logical vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, that uses malformed HTTP/2 control frames in order to break the max concurrent streams limit - which results in resource exhaustion and distributed denial of service. This issue has been patched in versions 4.1.124.Final and 4.2.4.Final.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-770: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical Impact: partial

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/767506
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/16/1

References

• https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-prj3-ccx8-p6x4

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