CVE-2026-42579
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Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-42579, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-05-13
Last updated on: 2026-05-18
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| netty | netty | to 4.1.133 (exc) |
| netty | netty | From 4.2.0 (inc) to 4.2.13 (exc) |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-20 | The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. |
| CWE-400 | The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource. |
| CWE-626 | The product does not properly handle null bytes or NUL characters when passing data between different representations or components. |
