CVE-2018-16131

HIGH

Lightbend Akka HTTP 10.0.0-10.0.13 and 10.1.0-10.1.4 - Denial of Service via ZIP Bomb

Title source: llm

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 (4)

Core 4

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html

Mailing List x_refsource_misc

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found

Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0305

EPSS Percentile 85.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (3)

com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.11 10.1.0 - 10.1.4Maven

com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.12 10.1.0 - 10.1.4Maven

lightbend/akka_http 10.0.0 - 10.0.13

Published Aug 30, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026