{"id":"CVE-2018-16131","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-16131","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T22:43:46.925Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2018-08-30T13:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:43:45.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-400"],"affected":["lightbend/akka http"],"epss":{"score":0.03054,"percentile":0.87512,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.05%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2018-09-05-denial-of-service-via-decodeRequest.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/akka-security/Dj7INsYWdjg","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16131","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}