GHSA-4qhr-g3c6-fcfxHigh

Netty XML: Injection / Risky Sink — unconfigured XML factory with active DTD and entity handling

Published
July 22, 2026
Last Modified
July 22, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Any caller that can deliver bytes to a Netty channel pipeline containing XmlDecoder can send XML with a DOCTYPE declaration to a parser instantiated with no security configuration — but whether external entities are actually resolved depends on Aalto XML's async parser behavior, making this a confirmed misconfiguration with conditional exploitability.

🎯 Affected products2

  • maven/io.netty:netty-codec-xml:>= 4.2.0.Final, <= 4.2.15.Final
  • maven/io.netty:netty-codec-xml:>= 4.1.0.Final, <= 4.1.135.Final

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