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Akka HTTP 10.0.x, 10.1.x Denial of Service 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
6 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Akka HTTP is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
An attacker can use a Zip Bomb attack using the decodeRequest and decodeRequestWith directives to cause excessive memory usage and eventually a total crash of the application.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Akka HTTP versions 10.0.0 through 10.1.12 and 10.1.0 through 10.1.3.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Update to version 10.1.13 or 10.1.4 respectively.