What is CVE-2018-18854?

CVE-2018-18854 is a high-severity vulnerability in Lightbend Spray-Json, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-10-31.

How severe is CVE-2018-18854?

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

Resource exhaustion in Lightbend Spray-Json

CVE-2018-18854

Lightbend Spray spray-json through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) because of Algorithmic Complexity during the parsing of many JSON object fields (with keys that have the same hash code).

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.019 (77.5th 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 Spray-json
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-18854?: CVE-2018-18854 is a high-severity vulnerability in Lightbend Spray-Json, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-10-31.
How severe is CVE-2018-18854?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.