CVE-2026-54251 (GCVE-0-2026-54251)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-15 17:13
Modified
2026-09-15 17:36
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-664 - Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime
Summary
netty-incubator-codec-ohttp implements Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) gateway and client functionality using Netty. Prior to 0.0.23.Final, the OHTTP gateway decryption path in codec-ohttp/src/main/java/io/netty/incubator/codec/ohttp/OHttpRequestResponseContext.java allocates a pooled direct ByteBuf for decrypted plaintext before the AEAD tag is verified. When an invalid tag causes decryptChunk() to throw CryptoException, OHttpRequestResponseContext.decodeChunk() does not release the ByteBuf because the allocation is not guarded by try/finally. Repeated invalid encrypted requests can therefore leak native off-heap memory until the gateway is unable to continue serving requests. This issue is fixed in version 0.0.23.Final.
References
Impacted products
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| netty | netty-incubator-codec-ohttp |
Version: < 0.0.23.Final |
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