CVE-2024-45590CWE-405

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

High · published September 10, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
56.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00824 · 56.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-405 · Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
Published
2024-09-10T15:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 SEP 15:54Z
    body-parser vulnerable to denial of service when url encoding is enabled
    cvelistv5