CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
79.3%
Akka HTTP is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if( description )
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113262");
script_version("2023-07-20T05:05:17+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-20 05:05:17 +0000 (Thu, 20 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-08-31 13:43:24 +0200 (Fri, 31 Aug 2018)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2018-11-15 17:07:00 +0000 (Thu, 15 Nov 2018)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-16131");
script_name("Akka HTTP 10.0.x, 10.1.x Denial of Service vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_akka_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("akka_http/installed");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Akka HTTP is prone to a Denial of Service vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"An attacker can use a Zip Bomb attack using the decodeRequest and
decodeRequestWith directives to cause excessive memory usage
and eventually a total crash of the application.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Akka HTTP versions 10.0.0 through 10.1.12 and 10.1.0 through 10.1.3.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 10.1.13 or 10.1.4 respectively.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://akka.io/blog/news/2018/08/30/akka-http-dos-vulnerability-found");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/2137");
exit(0);
}
CPE = "cpe:/a:akka:http";
include( "host_details.inc" );
include( "version_func.inc" );
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe: CPE ) ) exit( 0 );
if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe: CPE, port: port ) ) exit( 0 );
if( version_in_range( version: version, test_version: "10.0.0", test_version2: "10.0.12" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "10.0.13" );
security_message( data: report, port: port );
exit( 0 );
}
if( version_in_range( version: version, test_version: "10.1.0", test_version2: "10.1.3" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "10.1.4" );
security_message( data: report, port: port );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
Percentile
79.3%