Improper Resource Shutdown or Release Affecting com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core package, versions [10.2.0-M1,10.2.7)[,10.1.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
26.02% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-COMTYPESAFEAKKA-2336360
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Jan 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-42697  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-404  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core to version 10.2.7, 10.1.15 or higher.

Overview

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core is a full server- and client-side HTTP stack on top of akka-actor and akka-stream.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Resource Shutdown or Release which can encounter stack exhaustion while parsing HTTP headers. It allows a remote attacker to conduct a Denial of Service attack by sending a User-Agent header with deeply nested comments.

CVSS Scores

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