High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 18, 2026· Updated Sep 25, 2026
CVE-2026-93563
CVE-2026-93563
Description
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.
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