CVE-2026-93494 vulnerability in Red Hat Products
Published on September 18, 2026
Io.netty/netty-codec-stomp: netty: bytebuf leak in stompsubframedecoder when a frame body is never terminated
A flaw was found in Netty's StompSubframeDecoder component. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted STOMP frame body without its terminating null byte. This causes the decoder to allocate a ByteBuf (a buffer for bytes) that is never released, leading to a permanent memory leak. Over time, this uncontrolled memory consumption can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the application using the affected STOMP codec.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-93494 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public.
Weakness Type
OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
Weaknesses in this category are related to the A9 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2017.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-93494
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