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

September 10, 2024

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7
github.com/expressjs/body-parser
github.com/expressjs/body-parser/commit/b2695c4450f06ba3b0ccf48d872a229bb41c9bce
github.com/expressjs/body-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45590

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