CVE-2024-45590

body-parser vulnerable to denial of service when url encoding is enabled

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Sep 10, 2024
Updated: Sep 10, 2024
Reserved: Sep 2, 2024

Description

body-parser is Node.js body parsing middleware. body-parser <1.20.3 is vulnerable to denial of service when url encoding is enabled. A malicious actor using a specially crafted payload could flood the server with a large number of requests, resulting in denial of service. This issue is patched in 1.20.3.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-405 Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
body-parserexpressjs	< 1.20.3Affected

References

https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7
https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/commit/b2695c4450f06ba3b0ccf48d872a229bb41c9bce

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