{"id":"GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7","summary":"body-parser vulnerable to denial of service when url encoding is enabled","details":"### Impact\n\nbody-parser \u003c1.20.3 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.\n\n### Patches\n\nthis issue is patched in 1.20.3\n\n### References\n","aliases":["CVE-2024-45590"],"modified":"2026-07-17T21:17:12.664005133Z","published":"2024-09-10T15:52:39Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2024-09-10T15:52:39Z","nvd_published_at":"2024-09-10T16:15:21Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-405"],"severity":"HIGH"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45590"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/commit/b2695c4450f06ba3b0ccf48d872a229bb41c9bce"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"body-parser","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/body-parser"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.20.3"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/09/GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7/GHSA-qwcr-r2fm-qrc7.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V4","score":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"}]}