MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-93563 (CVSS 7.5)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 18, 2026Risk 23/100EPSS 0.3%
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.
Technical details
CVSS
7.5
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:NoneA:High
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