High, CVSS 8.2MavenPublished
Netty affected by MadeYouReset HTTP/2 DDoS vulnerability
CVE-2025-55163 · GHSA-prj3-ccx8-p6x4
- Affected
- Maven io.grpc:grpc-netty-shaded < 1.75.0
- Fixed in
- 1.75.0· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Below is a technical explanation of a newly discovered vulnerability in HTTP/2, which we refer to as “MadeYouReset.” MadeYouReset Vulnerability Summary The MadeYouReset DDoS vulnerability is a logical vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, that uses malformed HTTP/2 control frames in order to break the max concurrent streams limit - which results in resource exhaustion and distributed denial of service. Mechanism The vulnerability uses malformed HTTP/2 control frames, or malformed flow, in order to make the server reset streams created by the client (using the RSTSTREAM frame). The vulnerability could be triggered by several primitives, defined by the RFC of HTTP/2 (RFC 9113). The Primitives are: 1. WINDOWUPDATE frame with an increment of 0 or an increment that makes the window exceed 2^31 - 1. (section 6.9 + 6.9.1) 2. HEADERS or DATA frames sent on a half-closed (remote) stream (which was closed using the ENDSTREAM flag). (note that for some implementations it's possible a…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 1.75.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.