highCVSS 7.5Vulnerability

CVE-2026-59902

### Summary SctpMessageCompletionHandler does not limit the total size of buffered fragments, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to cause an OutOfMemoryError by sending large SCTP fragments. ### Details `io.netty.handler.codec.sctp.SctpMessageCompletionHandler` buffers fragments for incomplete SCTP messages. The fix for CVE-2026-46340 fixed unbounded memory growth by introducing limits on the number of concurrent incomplete messages (maxIncompleteSctpMessages) and the number of fragments per message (maxFragments). While the count of fragments is now bounded, the handler still does not enforce a maximum size in bytes. With the default limits of 128 messages and 128 fragments, and a typical max SCTP chunk size of 64KB, an attacker can consume up to ~1GB per connection. By opening a small number of concurrent connections, an attacker can easily exhaust the server's memory, causing an OutOfMemoryError. ### Impact Memory Exhaustion. Any application using Netty's SCTP transport with SctpMessageCompletionHandler is impacted.

Properties

severity
high
summary
Netty: Memory Exhaustion in SctpMessageCompletionHandler
epss_score
0.00684
cvss_score
7.5
ghsa_published
2026-08-17T17:50:49Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2qj4-mmr9-4v2f
ghsa_updated
2026-08-17T17:50:49Z
ghsa_id
GHSA-2qj4-mmr9-4v2f
cve_id
CVE-2026-59902
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
is_ghsa_only
false
epss_percentile
0.49574

Related Entities (5)

ENRICHED_BY (1)

[Source]FIRST EPSS

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

[Software]maven/io.netty:netty-transport-sctp

AFFECTS (1)

[Software]maven/io.netty:netty-transport-sctp

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

REPORTED_BY (1)

[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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