GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-389x-839f-4rhx Denial of Service attack on windows app using Netty
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-25193
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- io.netty:netty-common
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2025-02-10
Affected packages
• Maven io.netty:netty-common: < 4.1.118.Final → fixed in 4.1.118.Final
Description
Summary
An unsafe reading of environment file could potentially cause a denial of service in Netty.
When loaded on an Windows application, Netty attemps to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates such a large file, the Netty application crash.
Details
A similar issue was previously reported in https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv
This issue was fixed, but the fix was incomplete in that null-bytes were not counted against the input limit.
PoC
The PoC is the same as for https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv with the detail that the file should only contain null-bytes; 0x00.
When the null-bytes are encountered by the `InputStreamReader`, it will issue replacement characters in its charset decoding, which will fill up the line-buffer in the `BufferedReader.readLine()`, because the replacement character is not a line-break character.
Impact
Impact is the same as https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-25193 Netty, an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework, has a vulnerability in versions up to and including 4.1.118.Final. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-389x-839f-4rhx web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-25193 advisory
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/d1fbda62d3a47835d3fb35db8bd42ecc205a5386 web
- https://github.com/netty/netty package
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250221-0006 web