What is CVE-2018-16131?

CVE-2018-16131 is a high-severity vulnerability in Lightbend Akka Http, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-08-30.

How severe is CVE-2018-16131?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Lightbend Akka Http

CVE-2018-16131

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.031 (86.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Lightbend Akka_http
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-16131?: CVE-2018-16131 is a high-severity vulnerability in Lightbend Akka Http, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-08-30.
How severe is CVE-2018-16131?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.