Akka Async DNS resolver vulnerability fix for Akka 2.6.x

Hello everyone,

I would to ask you if the discovered vulnerability on the Async DNS Resolver (Akka Async DNS resolver has insufficient entropy to protect against DNS poisoning | Akka) will be fixed also in the latest version of Akka under Apache 2.0 license (branch 2.6.x)

Thank you very much for your support

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The vulnerability you are referring to is not considered critical and will not be backported to earlier versions of Akka.

NVD - CVE-2023-31442 has a CVSS score of 7.5 which is considered High. Is there any chance that the Akka team will reconsider?