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.

Affected: npm: body-parser

### Impact

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.

### Patches

this issue is patched in 1.20.3

### References

http-proxy-middleware: http-proxy-middleware: Denial of Service via unhandled error during path matching cross-spawn: regular expression denial of service path-to-regexp: Backtracking regular expressions cause ReDoS body-parser: Denial of Service Vulnerability in body-parser plugin-catalog-backend: prototype pollution vulnerability plugin-techdocs-backend: storage bucket directory traversal in TechDocs plugin-techdocs-backend: circumvention of XSS protection in TechDocs backstage/plugin-app-backend: Unexpected visibility of environment variable configurations in @backstage/plugin-app-backend

Affected: Ubuntu:16.04:LTS: node-body-parser, Ubuntu:18.04:LTS: node-body-parser, Ubuntu:20.04:LTS: node-body-parser, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: node-body-parser, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: node-body-parser

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.

Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat OpenShift ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, Daten zu manipulieren, vertrauliche Informationen preiszugeben, einen Cross-Site-Scripting-Angriff durchzuführen und beliebigen Code auszuführen.