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CVE-2026-54399 (GCVE-0-2026-54399)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-01 17:02 – Updated: 2026-07-01 17:36
VLAI
Title
Apache HttpComponents Core: Unbounded HTTP Header/Line Length in Default Configuration
Summary
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
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-01 17:34 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache HttpComponents Core Affected: 5.5-alpha , ≤ 5.5-beta1 (maven)
Affected: 5.0-alpha , ≤ 5.4.2 (maven)
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Credits
Henry Huang <zhuang3@paypal.com>
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