cve-2026-54399

HIGH CVSS 7.5 nvd
Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the HTTP/1.1 message parser in Apache HttpComponents Core (5.4.2 and earlier, 5.5-beta1 and earlier) allows an remote attacker to cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion by sending messages with excessive number of headers / excessive header length

Timeline
Published
2026-07-01
Last Modified
2026-10-25
CVSS Details
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
Affected Products
  • apache httpcomponents_core
Weaknesses (CWE)
CVSS metrics
Version Base Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Source
3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 3.9 3.6 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
CPE configurations
OR
CPE Version range Vulnerable
cpe:2.3:a:apache:httpcomponents_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* >= 5.0, <= 5.4.2 yes
cpe:2.3:a:apache:httpcomponents_core:5.5:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:* — yes
cpe:2.3:a:apache:httpcomponents_core:5.5:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* — yes
NVD metadata
NVD status
Analyzed
Source identifier
security@apache.org
References
Linked Vulnerabilities

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