GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66

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    GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66

    Published: 24 May 2022Last Modified: 30 Sept 2025

    Summary: Uncontrolled Recursion in Akka HTTP

    Details: Akka HTTP 10.1.x and 10.2.x before 10.2.7 can encounter stack exhaustion while parsing HTTP headers, which allows a remote attacker to conduct a Denial of Service attack by sending a User-Agent header with deeply nested comments.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42697, https://github.com/akka/akka-http/pull/3924, https://akka.io/blog, https://akka.io/blog/news/2021/11/02/akka-http-10.2.7-released, https://akka.io/blog/news/2021/11/22/akka-http-10.1.15-released, https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2021-CVE-2021-42697-stack-overflow-parsing-user-agent.html, https://github.com/akka/akka-http, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167018/Akka-HTTP-10.1.14-Denial-Of-Service.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13.0-RC3

    Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.13.0-RC3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 10.1.0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    10.1.8

    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
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