GHSA-xjh9-v7x6-24jw
@fastify/busboy vulnerable to Denial of Service via oversized multipart boundary
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | @fastify/busboy | >= 3.1.0, < 3.2.1 | 3.2.1 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
Versions of `@fastify/busboy` from 3.1.0 and prior to 3.2.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service. The vendored streaming multipart search stores its default skip distance in a `Uint8Array(256)`. A multipart boundary of exactly 252 bytes makes the search needle 256 bytes, and the table entry wraps to zero, so a crafted request keeps the search in a CPU-bound loop and stalls the Node.js event loop. An unauthenticated client can trigger this with a single small request. Applications that use `@fastify/busboy` to parse multipart/form-data, directly or through `@fastify/multipart`, are affected.
### Patches
Fixed in version 3.2.1.
### Workarounds
Validate the multipart boundary before parsing and reject any boundary longer than the RFC 2046 limit of 70 characters (for example at a reverse proxy or in an onRequest hook). Upgrading to 3.2.1 removes the issue.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/fastify/busboy/security/advisories/GHSA-xjh9-v7x6-24jw
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-19484
- https://github.com/fastify/busboy/commit/632a237e7fb6b3b7a30e0de8fab2ee72ca5bf722
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
- https://github.com/fastify/busboy
- https://github.com/fastify/busboy/releases/tag/v3.2.1