01 Record
CVE-2021-42697
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 36.13% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 98.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-11-02 21:44Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 03:38Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-10-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674Uncontrolled RecursionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 181cae7e9606a2bbb20e3cb68a0a7c5e73a21a8d2aa62a9dc918422d8c5d0c7d
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- akka.iohttps://akka.io/blog/
- doc.akka.iohttps://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/security/2021-CVE-2021-42697-stack-overflow-parsing-user-agent.html
- akka.iohttps://akka.io/blog/news/2021/11/02/akka-http-10.2.7-released
- akka.iohttps://akka.io/blog/news/2021/11/22/akka-http-10.1.15-released
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167018/Akka-HTTP-10.1.14-Denial-Of-Service.html