Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) Affecting body-parser package, versions <1.20.3
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (19th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-BODYPARSER-7926860
- published 11 Sep 2024
- disclosed 10 Sep 2024
- credit Adam Korcz
Introduced: 10 Sep 2024
CVE-2024-45590 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade body-parser to version 1.20.3 or higher.
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.