Vulnerability · Published Oct 19, 2021 · Assigned by JFROG

CVE-2021-37136

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Netty from The Netty project. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 5.9% (higher than 93% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)5.9%top 6.7% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The Bzip2 decompression decoder function doesn't allow setting size restrictions on the decompressed output data (which affects the allocation size used during decompression). All users of Bzip2Decoder are affected. The malicious input can trigger an OOME and so a DoS attack

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12netty1:4.1.48-6DEBIAN-CVE-2021-37136
Debian:13netty1:4.1.48-6DEBIAN-CVE-2021-37136
Debian:14netty1:4.1.48-6DEBIAN-CVE-2021-37136
Mavenio.netty:nettyno fix listedGHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv
Mavenio.netty:netty-codec4.1.68.FinalGHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv
Mavenorg.jboss.netty:nettyno fix listedGHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv
Rocky Linux:8libdb0:5.3.28-42.el8_4RLSA-2022:8506
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnetty1:4.1.48-4+deb11u1build0.22.04.1USN-6049-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSnetty1:4.1.48-4+deb11u1build0.22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2021-37136

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
The Netty project Netty unspecified – before 4.1.68Final

Weakness: CWE-400

References