GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-389x-839f-4rhx Denial of Service attack on windows app using Netty

MEDIUM Published 2025-02-10 Modified 2025-03-19 Official page ↗
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

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