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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2026-59901
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2026-59901
Aliases
Summary Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, the `Bzip2Decoder` handler in Netty's compression codec pipeline is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack through a malformed bzip2 stream that permanently captures the event-loop thread in an infinite loop. The vulnerability exists in the run-length encoding (RLE) state machine within [`Bzip2BlockDecompressor.read()`]. This issue has been fixed in versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
System Score Found at
cvssv4 8.7
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-558v-64gr-wgg4
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N Found at None
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-07-29T18:09:34Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-07-29T18:09:34Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/59xxx/CVE-2026-59901.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-59901

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]