PT-2018-13415 · Lightbend · Akka Http

Published 2018-08-30 · Updated 2018-11-15 · CVE-2018-16131

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Lightbend Akka HTTP versions 10.0.x through 10.0.13 Lightbend Akka HTTP versions 10.1.x through 10.1.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory consumption and daemon crash, via a ZIP bomb. This is due to the decodeRequest and decodeRequestWith directives in the affected software.

Recommendations For versions 10.0.x through 10.0.13, consider disabling the decodeRequest and decodeRequestWith directives as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. For versions 10.1.x through 10.1.4, consider disabling the decodeRequest and decodeRequestWith directives as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-16131

GHSA-9QGC-P27W-3HJG

Affected Products

Akka Http

References · 10

• https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137 · Patch
• https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16131 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16131 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg · Vendor Advisory
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16131 · Note