CVE-2026-44241
Micronaut Framework: Unbounded formattersCache in TimeConverterRegistrar Allows Memory Exhaustion via Accept-Language Header
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- May 12, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 10, 2026
- Reserved
- May 5, 2026
Description
Micronaut Framework is a JVM-based full stack Java framework designed for building modular, easily testable JVM applications. From 4.3.0 to before 4.10.22, 3.10.6, and 3.8.14, TimeConverterRegistrar caches DateTimeFormatter instances in an unbounded ConcurrentHashMap<String, DateTimeFormatter> whose key is derived from the @Format annotation pattern concatenated with the locale from the HTTP Accept-Language header. Because Locale.forLanguageTag() accepts arbitrary BCP 47 private-use extensions (en-x-a001, en-x-a002, …), an unauthenticated attacker can generate an unlimited number of unique cache keys by sending requests with novel locale tags, growing the cache until heap memory is exhausted and the JVM crashes. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.10.22, 3.10.6, and 3.8.14.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
micronaut-coremicronaut-projects |
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References
- https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/security/advisories/GHSA-8hjv-92q9-g4xj
- https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/commit/48f05ae8dc4157816fe0050c5cf730be7d44f8b3
- https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/commit/c2048ab740c2efdfe227813f203176e0ef93f892
- https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/commit/c6ca8782de7338732e887d090f38c9e941bcb284
- https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/releases/tag/v3.10.6
- https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/releases/tag/v3.8.14
- https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/releases/tag/v4.10.22
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