high · 7.5 Patched

body-parser vulnerable to Denial of Service via trailing bytes after a compressed request body

CVE-2026-111181 · GHSA-27r3-jxmh-p828 · published 23 Oct 2026

How serious is it

  • Severity: high, CVSS score 7.5 out of 10.
  • No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
  • Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  • No public exploit in Exploit-DB.

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Who is affected

  • body-parser (npm) >= 2.0.0, < 2.4.0
  • body-parser (npm) < 1.20.9

How to check

  1. Run npm ls body-parser in your project to see the installed version, including copies pulled in by other packages.
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  3. Or run npx shippable-dev scan localhost:3000 in your project folder. It reads your lockfile and flags this vulnerability along with every other known one.

How to fix

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  1. On >= 2.0.0, < 2.4.0: Upgrade body-parser to 2.4.0 or later, commit the lockfile and redeploy.
  2. On < 1.20.9: Upgrade body-parser to 1.20.9 or later, commit the lockfile and redeploy.
  3. If a vulnerable version was live, check your logs and rotate the secrets that server could read.

The advisory

### Impact A single request can crash any application using `body-parser` with default options. When a request carries a `Content-Encoding` (for example `gzip`), `body-parser` pipes it into a decompression stream and, after reading the body, leaves that stream piped with no error listener. A payload of one valid compressed frame followed by trailing bytes decodes and the application responds normally, but the trailing bytes then reach the already-finished decoder, which emits an error that is re-thrown as an uncaught exception and terminates the process. No authentication or matching route is required, since parsing runs before routing. ### Patches Fixed in body-parser 2.4.0 and 1.20.9. Upgrade to one of these versions. ### Workarounds Pass `inflate: false` to the body-parser middleware if the application does not need to accept compressed request bodies. This rejects encoded requests before any decompression stream is created.

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References

Merged from GitHub Advisory Database, OSV. Last updated 26 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON

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