CVE-2021-42697

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-42697
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42697.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-42697
Aliases
Published
2021-11-02T22:15:08.957Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:42:09.581634Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Akka HTTP 10.1.x before 10.1.15 and 10.2.x before 10.2.7 can encounter stack exhaustion while parsing HTTP headers, which allows a remote attacker to conduct a Denial of Service attack by sending a User-Agent header with deeply nested comments.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/akka/akka-http

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/akka/akka-http
Events
Introduced
3bd4b8a9566a8de9ecd730b50552b580ba3fe4c2
Fixed
5243345ff8eeb2ad7663bbb2a1d6e217a725afda
Introduced
80ebb83d75f1c6c45ded2901efbe97dd43c2051d
Fixed
df3dbfbb8344844fdf4f9a2b3d8aebe3793bfc56
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "10.1.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "10.1.15"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "10.2.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "10.2.7"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v10.*
v10.1.0
v10.1.1
v10.1.10
v10.1.11
v10.1.12
v10.1.13
v10.1.14
v10.1.2
v10.1.3
v10.1.4
v10.1.5
v10.1.6
v10.1.7
v10.1.8
v10.1.9
v10.2.0
v10.2.0-M1
v10.2.0-RC1
v10.2.0-RC2
v10.2.1
v10.2.2
v10.2.3
v10.2.4
v10.2.5
v10.2.5-M1
v10.2.5-M2
v10.2.6

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-42697.json"