GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-5x3r-wrvg-rp6q Netty HTTP/2: Advertised MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS are not enforced
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-47244
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- io.netty:netty-codec-http2
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-08
Affected packages
• Maven io.netty:netty-codec-http2: >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final → fixed in 4.2.15.Final
• Maven io.netty:netty-codec-http2: < 4.1.135.Final → fixed in 4.1.135.Final
Description
Impact
DefaultHttp2Connection.DefaultEndpoint initialises maxActiveStreams/maxStreams to Integer.MAX_VALUE, and Http2Settings never inserts SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS by default (Http2Settings.java:305-307 only clamps a user-supplied value). Unless the application explicitly calls initialSettings().maxConcurrentStreams(n), a Netty HTTP/2 server advertises no limit and enforces none locally. Each open stream allocates a DefaultStream object, PropertyMap slots, flow-controller state and IntObjectHashMap entry; with ~2^30 permissible odd stream IDs a single TCP connection can create hundreds of thousands of long-lived stream objects. This is also the precondition for CVE-2023-44487-style Rapid-Reset amplification, where the absence of a low concurrent cap multiplies backend work.
Resources
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7540.html#section-6.5.2
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-47244 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-5x3r-wrvg-rp6q web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47244 advisory
- https://github.com/netty/netty package
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final web
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final web