CVE-2018-16131

high

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.

References

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

https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137

https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html

https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-08-30

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H