CVE-2018-16131
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
High severity vulnerability that affects com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11 and com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12 | >=10.1.0,<10.1.4 | 10.1.4 |
| Maven | com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11 | >=10.1.0,<10.1.4 | 10.1.4 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16131
- https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137
- https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found
- https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjg
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.