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CVE-2026-116542

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 74/100
Published: 2026-10-26 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
AT: None
VC: None
VI: Low
VA: None

Description

Netty netty-tcnative before 2.0.84.Final contains an SNI hostname spoofing vulnerability that allows remote unauthenticated clients to alter hostnames via JNI NewStringUTF decoding. Attackers can send overlong encodings like 0xC0 0x80 in the ClientHello server_name to confuse SNI-based certificate selection, access decisions, and logging.

Weakness Classification (1)

References & Advisories (6)

Bug Bounty Relevance

74 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.9 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.21%
Raw Score 0.002080
Percentile 11.0%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00208
2026-10-28
0.00208

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
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