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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-47691 EUVD-2026-36489GHSA-5pvg-856g-cp85

Netty has Insufficient Bailiwick Validation for NS Records

Published Jun 12, 2026 · Updated Sep 18, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Vendor: netty Product: netty Package: akhq Package: apache-nifi Package: apache-pulsar-4.2 Package: apicurio-registry Package: celeborn-0.6 Package: druid Package: flyway Package: infinispan-16.1 Package: io.netty:netty-resolver-dns Package: keycloak-26.4-iamguarded-compat Package: keycloak-26.5 Package: keycloak-26.5-iamguarded-compat Package: keycloak-26.5-operator Package: keycloak-26.6 Package: keycloak-26.6-iamguarded-compat Package: keycloak-26.6-operator Package: management-api-for-apache-cassandra-5.0 Package: netty Package: netty Package: opensearch-3-discovery-ec2 Package: opensearch-3-iamguarded-compat Package: opensearch-3-neural-search Package: opensearch-3-repository-azure Package: selenium-server Package: sonarqube Package: spark-4.0-scala-2.13 Package: spark-4.1-scala-2.13 Package: strimzi-kafka-operator-cluster-operator Package: strimzi-kafka-operator-kafka-agent Package: strimzi-kafka-operator-kafka-init Package: strimzi-kafka-operator-kafka-thirdparty-libs-cc Package: strimzi-kafka-operator-topic-operator Package: strimzi-kafka-operator-tracing-agent Package: strimzi-kafka-operator-user-operator Package: tez Package: thingsboard-tb-mqtt-transport Package: thingsboard-tb-node Package: trino Package: trino-plugin-bigquery Package: trino-plugin-delta-lake Package: trino-plugin-exchange-filesystem Package: trino-plugin-exchange-hdfs Package: trino-plugin-hive Package: trino-plugin-hudi Package: trino-plugin-iceberg Package: trino-plugin-lakehouse Package: trino-plugin-opensearch Package: trino-plugin-oracle Package: trino-plugin-pinot Package: trino-plugin-spooling-filesystem Package: trino-plugin-teradata-functions Package: wildfly-openjdk-17 Package: wildfly-openjdk-21 Package: zipkin Package: zipkin-slim Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Maven Ecosystem: Ubuntu Ecosystem: Wolfi

Description

Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, Netty's `DnsResolveContext` insufficiently validates the bailiwick of NS records, enabling DNS Cache Poisoning. An attacker controlling an authoritative name server for a subdomain can poison the cache for parent domains (like `.co.uk`). In `io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext.AuthoritativeNameServerList#add` method accepts any NS record from the AUTHORITY section as long as the record's name is a suffix of the questionName. Subsequently, the `handleWithAdditional` method caches the associated A records from the ADDITIONAL section directly into the `authoritativeDnsServerCache` under the parent domain's key. This bypasses standard bailiwick rules, where a server authoritative for a subdomain should not be trusted to provide authoritative records for its parent. The poisoned cache is then used for all future resolutions under the parent domain's key. Versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final patch the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
netty netty >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final, < 4.1.135.Final —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 netty No fix yet —
Debian 13 netty No fix yet —
Debian 12 netty No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 netty No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS netty 1:4.1.48-9ubuntu0.2+esm2 USN-8742-1
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS netty No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Single Sign On 7 rh-sso7-keycloak +1 18.0.20-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso RHSA-2026:76130, RHSA-2026:76129, RHSA-2026:76128
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-activemq-artemis +15 2.16.0-22.redhat_00057.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-glassfish-jsf 2.3.14-11.SP11_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-ironjacamar +8 1.5.26-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jackson-core +10 2.18.8-1.redhat_00003.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jboss-remoting 5.0.31-3.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jboss-server-migration +2 1.10.0-46.Final_redhat_00044.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-netty +26 4.1.135-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-picketlink-api +7 2.5.5-24.SP12_redhat_00016.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-picketlink-bindings +1 2.5.5-30.SP12_redhat_00020.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-undertow 2.2.40-2.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-wildfly +4 7.4.25-2.GA_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-eap-product-conf-parent +1 801.7.1-1.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:49700
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jose4j 0.9.6-2.redhat_00002.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:49700
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-netty +14 4.1.135-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:49700
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly +3 8.1.7.1-1.GA_redhat_00004.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:49700
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 netty 4.1.135-150200.4.50.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES 15 SP7 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES 15 SP6 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 netty-tcnative 2.0.79-150200.3.45.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2802-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed netty 4.1.135-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11033-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling akhq 0.27.1-r3 —
Wolfi rolling apache-nifi 2.9.0-r14 —
Wolfi rolling apache-pulsar-4.2 4.2.2-r3 —
Wolfi rolling apicurio-registry 3.3.0-r3 —
Wolfi rolling celeborn-0.6 0.6.3-r7 —
Wolfi rolling druid 37.0.0-r12 —
Wolfi rolling flyway 12.8.1-r4 —
Wolfi rolling infinispan-16.1 16.1.4-r3 —
Wolfi rolling keycloak-26.5 +3 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling keycloak-26.6 +2 26.6.3-r3 —
Wolfi rolling management-api-for-apache-cassandra-5.0 0.1.120-r0 —
Wolfi rolling opensearch-3-discovery-ec2 +2 3.8.0-r3 —
Wolfi rolling opensearch-3-repository-azure 3.6.0-r7 —
Wolfi rolling selenium-server 4.44.0-r2 —
Wolfi rolling sonarqube 26.8.0.126808-r0 —
Wolfi rolling spark-4.0-scala-2.13 4.0.3-r1 —
Wolfi rolling spark-4.1-scala-2.13 4.1.2-r4 —
Wolfi rolling strimzi-kafka-operator-kafka-init +5 1.0.0-r6 —
Wolfi rolling strimzi-kafka-operator-kafka-thirdparty-libs-cc 1.0.0-r7 —
Wolfi rolling tez 0.10.5-r16 —
Wolfi rolling thingsboard-tb-node +1 4.3.1.2-r5 —
Wolfi rolling trino +4 483-r7 —
Wolfi rolling trino-plugin-hive +8 481-r7 —
Wolfi rolling wildfly-openjdk-17 +1 40.0.0-r3 —
Wolfi rolling zipkin +1 3.6.1-r10 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven io.netty:netty-resolver-dns >= 4.2.0.Final, < 4.2.15.Final 4.2.15.Final GHSA-5pvg-856g-cp85
Maven io.netty:netty-resolver-dns < 4.1.135.Final 4.1.135.Final GHSA-5pvg-856g-cp85

Advisories 10

References