CVE-2018-16131

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    CVE-2018-16131

    Published: 30 Aug 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 977db11dad21a320f56948efb1e94debdcc4b429
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    v10.0.13
    v10.0.12
    v10.0.11
    v10.0.10
    v10.0.9
    v10.0.8
    v10.0.7
    v10.0.6
    v10.0.5
    v10.0.4
    v10.0.3
    v10.0.1
    v10.0.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High