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SCA: security update for com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11, com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12 (GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422008

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2018-16131)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422008

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16131

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16131

cwe: CWE-400