Medium severity · published Mar 25, 2024
CVE-2024-29025
Netty HttpPostRequestDecoder can OOM
5.3
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. The `HttpPostRequestDecoder` can be tricked to accumulate data. While the decoder can store items on the disk if configured so, there are no limits to the number of fields the form can have, an attacher can send a chunked post consisting of many small fields that will be accumulated in the `bodyListHttpData` list. The decoder cumulates bytes in the `undecodedChunk` buffer until it can decode a field, this field can cumulate data without limits. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.1.108.Final.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 72% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NE
netty · netty
< 4.1.108.Final · source: vendor, NVD, CISA
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29025
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-29025
Exploit
https://gist.github.com/vietj/f558b8ea81ec6505f1e9a6ca283c9ae3
Patch
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/0d0c6ed782d13d423586ad0c71737b2c7d02058c
Exploit
https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-5jpm-x58v-624v
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00015.html
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