CVSS 3.0
7.5 highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2018-16131
High (7.5) in lightbend akka http. EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12 10.1.4.
The decodeRequest and decodeRequestWith directives in Lightbend Akka HTTP 10.1.x through 10.1.4 and 10.0.x through 10.0.13 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon crash) via a ZIP bomb.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 87% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-400
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- lightbend:akka_http
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg | Maven | com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12 | >=10.1.0 <10.1.4 | 10.1.4 |
| GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg | Maven | com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11 | >=10.1.0 <10.1.4 | 10.1.4 |
References
- https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found
- https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html
- https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg
- https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found