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Red HatCVE-2026-93563

Red Hat Netty: denial of service

High7.5CVE-2026-93563 · Published Sep 18, 2026 · updated Sep 25, 2026

A flaw was found in Netty's `SmtpResponseDecoder` component. A remote attacker, acting as a malicious or man-in-the-middle (MITM) SMTP server, could exploit this by sending a specially crafted, unbounded multi-line SMTP response without a terminator. This vulnerability leads to unbounded memory accumulation within the client's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) heap, causing an `OutOfMemoryError` and a denial of service (DoS) due to a process crash.

Red Hat advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Fuse 7
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-1035

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