CVE-2026-42587

Netty CVE-2026-42587 affects HttpContentDecompressor and DelegatingDecompressorFrameListener. Before 4.2.13.Final and 4.1.133.Final, maxAllocation is enforced for gzip/deflate but ignored for br, zstd, or snappy, allowing an attacker to bypass the decompression limit via Content-Encoding: br and ...

Netty: HttpContentDecompressor maxAllocation bypass when Content-Encoding set to br/zstd/snappy leads to decompression bomb DoS

Summary HttpContentDecompressor accepts a maxAllocation parameter to limit decompression buffer size and prevent decompression bomb attacks. This limit is correctly enforced for gzip and deflate encodings via ZlibDecoder, but is silently ignored when the content encoding is br Brotli, zstd, or...