CVE-2025-13466 (GCVE-0-2025-13466)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-24 18:29 – Updated: 2025-11-24 18:57
VLAI
Title
body-parser vulnerable to denial of service when url encoding is used
Summary
body-parser 2.2.0 is vulnerable to denial of service due to inefficient handling of URL-encoded bodies with very large numbers of parameters. An attacker can send payloads containing thousands of parameters within the default 100KB request size limit, causing elevated CPU and memory usage. This can lead to service slowdown or partial outages under sustained malicious traffic. This issue is addressed in version 2.2.1.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:P/AU:Y
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-24 18:56 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
openjs CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 121 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
body-parser body-parser Affected: 2.2.0 (semver)
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Credits
Phillip Barta Sebastian Beltran Ulises Gascón Chris de Almeida Jean Burellier
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