GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/05/GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66/GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-3hw2-h67c-wq66

Aliases

CVE-2021-42697

Published

2022-05-24T19:19:40Z

Modified

2025-09-30T18:16:55.386086Z

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

Uncontrolled Recursion in Akka HTTP

Details

Akka HTTP 10.1.x 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.

Database specific

{
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-06-21T20:08:40Z",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-11-02T22:15:00Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-674",
        "CWE-787"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Maven

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13.0-RC3

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13.0-RC3; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.13.0-RC3

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.1.0

Affected versions

10.*

10.1.8

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range

"< 10.1.15"

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13.0-RC2

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13.0-RC2; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.13.0-RC2

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.1.0

Affected versions

10.*

10.1.8

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range

"< 10.1.15"

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13.0-M5

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13.0-M5; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.13.0-M5

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.1.0

Affected versions

10.*

10.1.7

10.1.8

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range

"< 10.1.15"

com.typesafe.akka:aakka-http-core_2.13.0-M3

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:aakka-http-core_2.13.0-M3; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/aakka-http-core_2.13.0-M3

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.1.0

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range

"< 10.1.15"

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.13

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.1.0

Fixed

10.1.15

Affected versions

10.*

10.1.8

10.1.9

10.1.10

10.1.11

10.1.12

10.1.13

10.1.14

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.13

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.2.0-M1

Fixed

10.2.7

Affected versions

10.*

10.2.0-M1

10.2.0-RC1

10.2.0-RC2

10.2.0

10.2.1

10.2.2

10.2.3

10.2.4

10.2.5-M1

10.2.5-M2

10.2.5

10.2.6

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.12

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.1.0

Fixed

10.1.15

Affected versions

10.*

10.1.0

10.1.1

10.1.2

10.1.3

10.1.4

10.1.5

10.1.6

10.1.7

10.1.8

10.1.9

10.1.10

10.1.11

10.1.12

10.1.13

10.1.14

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.12

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.2.0-M1

Fixed

10.2.7

Affected versions

10.*

10.2.0-M1

10.2.0-RC1

10.2.0-RC2

10.2.0

10.2.1

10.2.2

10.2.3

10.2.4

10.2.5-M1

10.2.5-M2

10.2.5

10.2.6

com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11

Package

Name: com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.11

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

10.1.0

Fixed

10.1.15

Affected versions

10.*

10.1.0

10.1.1

10.1.2

10.1.3

10.1.4

10.1.5

10.1.6

10.1.7

10.1.8

10.1.9

10.1.10

10.1.11

10.1.12

10.1.13

10.1.14