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
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/zmxh1pl2zohov5ntdh4lt85gfrlchgpy Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · apacheNVD modified 2026-10-25 17:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 3
cpe:2.3:a:apache:httpcomponents_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:httpcomponents_core:5.5:alpha1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:apache:httpcomponents_core:5.5:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 2
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/zmxh1pl2zohov5ntdh4lt85gfrlchgpy Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/01/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory