CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-16131
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-08-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• lightbend akka http (>= 10.0.0 <= 10.0.13)
• lightbend akka http (>= 10.1.0 <= 10.1.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found Vendor Advisory
- https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg groups.google.com
- https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found Vendor Advisory
- https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg groups.google.com