In Eclipse Vert.x versions [4.0.0, 4.5.34] or [5.0.0,5.0.12] or [5.1.0,5.1.9] or [5.2.0, 5.2.0], the MySQL message decoder aggregates inbound multi-packet payloads into a composite direct-memory buffer without any cumulative size limit. A malicious, compromised, or man-in-the-middle MySQL server can send a continuous stream of packets with the maximum payload length (0xFFFFFF), preventing the end-of-message condition from being reached, causing unbounded direct-memory allocation on the client and leading to an out-of-memory crash. This occurs before authentication completes.



The impacted component is io.vertx:vertx-mysql-client.
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Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:30:00 +0000

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Title Out‑of‑Memory Crash via Unbounded MySQL Packet Decoding io.vertx/vertx-mysql-client: vertx-mysql-client: Denial of Service via unbounded memory allocation during packet decoding
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

threat_severity

Moderate


Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:15:00 +0000

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Title Out‑of‑Memory Crash via Unbounded MySQL Packet Decoding

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-789

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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Description In Eclipse Vert.x versions [4.0.0, 4.5.34] or [5.0.0,5.0.12] or [5.1.0,5.1.9] or [5.2.0, 5.2.0], the MySQL message decoder aggregates inbound multi-packet payloads into a composite direct-memory buffer without any cumulative size limit. A malicious, compromised, or man-in-the-middle MySQL server can send a continuous stream of packets with the maximum payload length (0xFFFFFF), preventing the end-of-message condition from being reached, causing unbounded direct-memory allocation on the client and leading to an out-of-memory crash. This occurs before authentication completes. The impacted component is io.vertx:vertx-mysql-client.
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: eclipse

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-16T18:51:17.848Z

Reserved: 2026-09-30T07:25:50.362Z

Link: CVE-2026-103224

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Undergoing Analysis

Published: 2026-10-15T09:17:15.990

Modified: 2026-10-16T19:17:01.403

Link: CVE-2026-103224

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-10-15T08:22:18Z

Links: CVE-2026-103224 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-17T02:45:13Z

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