Medium, CVSS 6.8MavenPublished
netty-incubator-codec-ohttp's Incorrect Native Pointer Derivation in Pooled Direct ByteBuf Fallback Leads to Out-of-Bounds Native Memory Access
CVE-2026-48040 · GHSA-32hf-8jw3-v4qq
- Affected
- Maven io.netty.incubator:netty-incubator-codec-ohttp-hpke-native-boringssl < 0.0.22.Final
- Fixed in
- 0.0.22.Final· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- The netty-incubator-codec-ohttp library implements Oblivious HTTP (RFC 9458) using BoringSSL's HPKE C library via JNI. When deriving native memory addresses for cryptographic operations, provides a fallback path for direct ByteBufs that do not expose their memory address through hasMemoryAddress(). This fallback occurs when sun.misc.Unsafe is unavailable to Netty — for example, when the JVM is started with -Dio.netty.noUnsafe=true, when a SecurityManager restricts Unsafe access, or when running on non-HotSpot JVMs. In these configurations, Netty's default PooledByteBufAllocator returns PooledDirectByteBuf instances for which hasMemoryAddress() returns false. Why this matters: Under the enabling JVM configuration, an unauthenticated network attacker can cause the OHTTP gateway to corrupt memory belonging to other concurrent connections and disclose the contents of adjacent pooled direct buffers by triggering cryptographic operations with crafted OHTTP requests. The corruption occurs…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.0.22.Final or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.