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High severity vulnerability that affects com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11 and com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 22, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

maven com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11 (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 10.1.0, < 10.1.4

Patched versions

10.1.4
maven com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12 (Maven)
>= 10.1.0, < 10.1.4
10.1.4

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.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 22, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.641%
(80th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-16131

GHSA ID

GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg

Source code

No known source code
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