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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113262
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Akka HTTP 10.0.x, 10.1.x Denial of Service vulnerability
Summary:Akka HTTP is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Akka HTTP is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
An attacker can use a Zip Bomb attack using the decodeRequest and
decodeRequestWith directives to cause excessive memory usage
and eventually a total crash of the application.

Affected Software/OS:
Akka HTTP versions 10.0.0 through 10.1.12 and 10.1.0 through 10.1.3.

Solution:
Update to version 10.1.13 or 10.1.4 respectively.

CVSS Score:
7.8

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-16131
https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found
https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg
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