CVE-2018-16131 - 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

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HIGH

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

Published Aug 30, 2018

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 3.05%

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References (7)

https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg
Advisory
https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg
x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16131

Link	Providers	Tags
https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg		Advisory
https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137		x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg		x_refsource_MISC
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16131