Medium

FS2 half-shutdown of socket during TLS handshake may result in spin loop on opposite side

  • Disclosed: 05.09.2025
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:22

Impact

When establishing a TLS session using fs2-io on the JVM using the fs2.io.net.tls package, if one side of the connection shuts down write while the peer side is awaiting more data to progress the TLS handshake, the peer side will spin loop on the socket read, fully utilizing a CPU. This CPU is consumed until the overall connection is closed.

This could be used as a denial of service attack on an fs2-io powered server -- for example, by opening many connections and putting them in a half-shutdown state.

Note: this issue impacts ember backed http4s servers with HTTPS as a result of ember using fs2's TLS support.

Patches

Fixed in fs2 3.12.2 and 3.13.0-M7.

Workarounds

No workarounds.

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Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_0.26 all versions no fix
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_0.27 all versions no fix
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_2.11 all versions no fix
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_2.12 >= 3.0.0-M1, < 3.12.2, >= 3.13.0-M1, < 3.13.0-M7, < 2.5.13 3.12.2, 3.13.0-M7, 2.5.13
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_2.12.0-M4 all versions no fix
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_2.12.0-M5 all versions no fix
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_2.12.0-RC1 all versions no fix
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_2.12.0-RC2 all versions no fix
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_2.13 >= 3.0.0-M1, < 3.12.2, >= 3.13.0-M1, < 3.13.0-M7, < 2.5.13 3.12.2, 3.13.0-M7, 2.5.13
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_2.13.0-M5 all versions no fix
Java / Kotlin (Maven) co.fs2:fs2-io_3 >= 3.0.0-M1, < 3.12.2, >= 3.13.0-M1, < 3.13.0-M7, < 2.5.13 3.12.2, 3.13.0-M7, 2.5.13

References

CVSS score 5.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
co.fs2:fs2-io_0.26, co.fs2:fs2-io_0.27, co.fs2:fs2-io_2.11
Disclosed
05.09.2025
Updated
11.10.2026 12:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-rrw2-px9j-qffj - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: co.fs2:fs2-io_2.11

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