CVE-2024-45590 body-parser vulnerable to denial of service when url encoding is enabled

2024-09-1015:54:02

CWE-405

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

node.js

body-parser

denial of service

cve-2024-45590

vulnerability

url encoding

patched

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

Percentile

9.6%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "expressjs",
    "product": "body-parser",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 1.20.3",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]