GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-676x-f7gg-47vc Netty Vulnerable to DNS Cache Poisoning via Missing Bailiwick Checks in CNAME Records
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-45674
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- io.netty:netty-resolver-dns
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-345, CWE-346
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-08
Affected packages
• Maven io.netty:netty-resolver-dns: >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final → fixed in 4.2.15.Final
• Maven io.netty:netty-resolver-dns: < 4.1.135.Final → fixed in 4.1.135.Final
Description
Summary
Netty's DnsResolveContext fails to validate the origin (bailiwick) of CNAME records in DNS responses.
Details
In `io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext#buildAliasMap`, the resolver processes the ANSWER section of a DNS response and blindly caches all CNAME records it finds.
According to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5452#section-6
```
Care must be taken to only accept
data if it is known that the originator is authoritative for the
QNAME or a parent of the QNAME.
One very simple way to achieve this is to only accept data if it is
part of the domain for which the query was intended.
```
Impact
DNS Cache Poisoning (Bailiwick Bypass). Any application using Netty's DNS resolver is impacted.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-45674 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-676x-f7gg-47vc web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45674 advisory
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45674.json web
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final web
- https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final web
- https://github.com/netty/netty package
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488400 web
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45674 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65126 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62260 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54435 web
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- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53645 web
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