Netty up to 4.1.114 resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Netty up to 4.1.114. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2024-47535. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Netty up to 4.1.114. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. An unsafe reading of environment file could potentially cause a denial of service in Netty. When loaded on an Windows application, Netty attempts to load a file that does not exist. If an attacker creates such a large file, the Netty application crashes. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.1.115.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-47535 since 09/25/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213377 (SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : aalto-xml, flatten-maven-plugin, jctools, moditect, netty, netty-tcnative (SUSE-SU-2024:4407-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 4.1.115 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch fbf7a704a82e7449b48bd0bbb679f5661c6d61a3 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (213377) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0938). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

  • HCL Commerce
  • IBM DB2
  • IBM Tivoli Key Lifecycle Manager

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.4

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Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 213377
Nessus Name: SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : aalto-xml, flatten-maven-plugin, jctools, moditect, netty, netty-tcnative (SUSE-SU-2024:4407-1)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Netty 4.1.115
Patch: fbf7a704a82e7449b48bd0bbb679f5661c6d61a3

Timelineinfo

09/25/2024 🔍
11/12/2024 +48 days 🔍
11/12/2024 +0 days 🔍
01/23/2026 +437 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: GHSA-xq3w-v528-46rv
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-47535 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-47535
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-284034
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2025-0938 - IBM DB2: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of Service

Entryinfo

Created: 11/12/2024 17:31
Updated: 01/23/2026 16:38
Changes: 11/12/2024 17:31 (65), 12/24/2024 09:11 (2), 09/05/2025 16:17 (1), 01/23/2026 16:38 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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