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Akka HTTP < 10.2.7 DoS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
Akka HTTP is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The HTTP specification allows arbitrary nesting of comment elements in User-Agent and other headers. While parsing a request containing a User-Agent header with deeply nested comments, Akka HTTP may fail with a stack overflow in the parser. Stack overflows are handled as fatal errors in Akka leading to a complete shutdown of the application.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Akka HTTP prior to version 10.2.7.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 10.2.7 or later.