akka CVE Vulnerabilities & Metrics

Focus on akka vulnerabilities and metrics.

Last updated: 08 Jul 2025, 22:25 UTC

About akka Security Exposure

This page consolidates all known Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) associated with akka. We track both calendar-based metrics (using fixed periods) and rolling metrics (using gliding windows) to give you a comprehensive view of security trends and risk evolution. Use these insights to assess risk and plan your patching strategy.

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Global CVE Overview

Total akka CVEs: 5
Earliest CVE date: 17 Jul 2017, 13:18 UTC
Latest CVE date: 03 Jun 2025, 15:15 UTC

Latest CVE reference: CVE-2025-46548

Rolling Stats

30-day Count (Rolling): 0
365-day Count (Rolling): 1

Calendar-based Variation

Calendar-based Variation compares a fixed calendar period (e.g., this month versus the same month last year), while Rolling Growth Rate uses a continuous window (e.g., last 30 days versus the previous 30 days) to capture trends independent of calendar boundaries.

Variations & Growth

Month Variation (Calendar): -100.0%
Year Variation (Calendar): 0.0%

Month Growth Rate (30-day Rolling): -100.0%
Year Growth Rate (365-day Rolling): 0.0%

Monthly CVE Trends (current vs previous Year)

Annual CVE Trends (Last 20 Years)

Critical akka CVEs (CVSS ≥ 9) Over 20 Years

CVSS Stats

Average CVSS: 3.86

Max CVSS: 9.3

Critical CVEs (≥9): 1

CVSS Range vs. Count

Range Count
0.0-3.9 2
4.0-6.9 2
7.0-8.9 0
9.0-10.0 1

CVSS Distribution Chart

Top 5 Highest CVSS akka CVEs

These are the five CVEs with the highest CVSS scores for akka, sorted by severity first and recency.

All CVEs for akka

CVE-2025-46548 akka vulnerability CVSS: 0 03 Jun 2025, 15:15 UTC

If you enable Basic Authentication in Pekko Management using the Java DSL, the authenticator may not be properly applied. Users that rely on authentication instead of making sure the Management API ports are only available to trusted users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.1.1, which fixes this issue. Akka was affected by the same issue and has released the fix in version 1.6.1.

CVE-2023-44487 akka vulnerability CVSS: 0 10 Oct 2023, 14:15 UTC

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

CVE-2021-42697 akka vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 02 Nov 2021, 22:15 UTC

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 User-Agent header with deeply nested comments.

CVE-2017-1000118 akka vulnerability CVSS: 5.0 05 Oct 2017, 01:29 UTC

Akka HTTP versions <= 10.0.5 Illegal Media Range in Accept Header Causes StackOverflowError Leading to Denial of Service

CVE-2017-1000034 akka vulnerability CVSS: 9.3 17 Jul 2017, 13:18 UTC

Akka versions <=2.4.16 and 2.5-M1 are vulnerable to a java deserialization attack in its Remoting component resulting in remote code execution in the context of the ActorSystem.