Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) Affecting org.webjars.npm:body-parser package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-7926861
  • published11 Sept 2024
  • disclosed10 Sept 2024
  • creditAdam Korcz

Introduced: 10 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-45590  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-405  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) via the extendedparser and urlencoded functions when the URL encoding process is enabled. An attacker can flood the server with a large number of specially crafted requests.

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version 3.1