# CVE-2026-93575: Io.netty/netty-codec-mqtt: netty: resource exhaustion in mqttdecoder

- 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-mqtt: version range not reported
- netty-codec-mqtt: version range not reported
- netty-codec-mqtt: 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-mqtt: version range not reported
- netty-codec-mqtt: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Netty's MqttDecoder. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted MQTT CONNECT packet. The decoder fails to properly validate the 'Properties Length' against the 'Remaining Length', allowing an attacker to bypass size limits. This leads to excessive memory and CPU consumption, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) due to an OutOfMemoryError.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on netty-codec-mqtt, 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.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93575
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536967

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