CVE-2018-16131

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.031 · 88 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.05% (88th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

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5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The decodeRequest and decodeRequestWith directives in Lightbend Akka HTTP 10.1.x through 10.1.4 and 10.0.x through 10.0.13 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon crash) via a ZIP bomb.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.9–7.8

v2.07.8highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USprimaryCWE-400US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
lightbend akka http10.0.0 → 10.0.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:lightbend:akka_http:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
lightbend akka http10.1.0 → 10.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:lightbend:akka_http:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.1110.1.0 → 10.1.4osvUSpkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.11
Maven com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.1210.1.0 → 10.1.4osvUSpkg:maven/com.typesafe.akka/akka-http-core_2.12

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-9qgc-p27w-3hjgHigh severity vulnerability that affects com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11 and com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.122018-10-22ghsa · osvUS
The decodeRequest and decodeRequestWith directives in Lightbend Akka HTTP 10.1.x through 10.1.4 and 10.0.x through 10.0.13 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon crash) via a ZIP bomb.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-08-30modified 2026-06-17

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references (11)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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