Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11, com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12, com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13 (GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409555

Description

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

 - Akka HTTP 10.1.x before 10.1.15 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. (CVE-2021-42697)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 409555

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

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: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42697

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-42697