CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-69208

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Http4s (versions prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47) has a memory exhaustion vulnerability in the DigestAuth server middleware. Due to an inverted stale-nonce comparison, the middleware does not remove fresh nonces and stops eviction at the first stale nonce. An unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly trigger authentication challenges, causing the persistent nonce map to grow until the JVM exhausts heap memory.

Risk Assessment

Availability risk: an attack can exhaust JVM memory, resulting in denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Update Http4s to version 0.23.35 or 1.0.0-M47, which include the fix.

Other vulnerabilities in Http4s

See all
Original NVD description (English source)

Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47, the DigestAuth server middleware removes fresh nonces and stops eviction at the first stale nonce because its stale-nonce comparison is inverted. On an application that protects at least one route with DigestAuth, an unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly trigger authentication challenges, causing the persistent nonce map to grow until the JVM exhausts heap memory. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.35 and 1.0.0-M47.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS