CVE-2026-59902Netty: Memory Exhaustion in SctpMessageCompletionHandler
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 0.36%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 69% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.36% · top 69% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenio.netty:netty-transport-sctpGHSA-2qj4-mmr9-4v2f (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-2qj4-mmr9-4v2f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/17213 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/netty/netty/pull/17217 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/1b5abc6443b63726c72cdd285af2feb7ddbb8ff7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.137.Final (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.17.Final (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-60314 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-2qj4-mmr9-4v2f (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-59902)Record last updated .