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

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2024-45590

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. A flaw was found in body-parser. This vulnerability causes denial of service via a specially crafted payload when the URL encoding is enabled. • https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/commit/b2695c4450f06ba3b0ccf48d872a229bb41c9bce https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-45590 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2311171 • CWE-405: Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) •