Improper Resource Shutdown or Release Affecting com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13 Open this link in a new tab package, versions [10.2.0-M1,10.2.7) [,10.1.15)
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JAVA-COMTYPESAFEAKKA-2336362
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published
12 Jan 2022
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disclosed
12 Jan 2022
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credit
Unknown
Introduced: 12 Jan 2022
CVE-2021-42697 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13
to version 10.2.7, 10.1.15 or higher.
Overview
com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13 is a modern, fast, asynchronous, streaming-first HTTP server and client.
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.