CVE-2026-42579

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base

7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)

1.0%

61.5th percentile

CISA KEV

Not listed

Weakness / dates

CWE-1286

Published 2026-05-13 · modified 2026-09-18

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector	N	Network
Attack Complexity	L	Low
Privileges Required	N	None
User Interaction	N	None
Scope	U	Unchanged
Confidentiality	N	None
Integrity	H	High
Availability	N	None

Timeline

2026-05-13 — Published (NVD)
2026-09-18 — Last modified (NVD)

Description

Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, Netty's DNS codec does not enforce RFC 1035 domain name constraints during either encoding or decoding. This creates a bidirectional attack surface: malicious DNS responses can exploit the decoder, and user-influenced hostnames can exploit the encoder. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final.

Affected

netty

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org