Update dependency body-parser to ^2.2.1 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Adoption	Passing	Confidence
body-parser	^2.2.0 -> ^2.2.1

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2025-13466

Impact

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.

Patches

This issue is addressed in version 2.2.1.

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body-parser is vulnerable to denial of service when url encoding is used

CVE-2025-13466 / GHSA-wqch-xfxh-vrr4

More information

Details

Impact

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.

Patches

This issue is addressed in version 2.2.1.

Severity

• CVSS Score: 5.5 / 10 (Medium)
• Vector String: 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

References

• https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-wqch-xfxh-vrr4
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13466
• https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/commit/b204886a6744b0b6d297cd0e849d75de836f3b63
• https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser
• https://github.com/expressjs/body-parser/releases/tag/v2.2.1

This data is provided by OSV and the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

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Release Notes

expressjs/body-parser (body-parser)

v2.2.1

Compare Source

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• Security fix for GHSA-wqch-xfxh-vrr4
• deps:
  • type-is@^2.0.1
  • iconv-lite@^0.7.0
    • Handle split surrogate pairs when encoding UTF-8
    • Avoid false positives in encodingExists by using prototype-less objects
  • raw-body@^3.0.1
  • debug@^4.4.3

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