HighGHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7CVE-2024-45590

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

Published 10 Sept 2024 · Updated 10 Sept 2026

Affected package

body-parsernpm
Affected
<1.20.3
Fixed in
1.20.3
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install body-parser@1.20.3

Details

Impact

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.

Patches

this issue is patched in 1.20.3

References

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References

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