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CVE-2026-54399

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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

Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.5 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-01 17:16:36.357000
Last modified
2026-10-25 17:10:00.197000
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  "published": "2026-07-01T17:16:36.357",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-25T17:10:00.197",
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