Denial of service due to unlimited number of parts

Description

Impact

  • The multipart body parser accepts an unlimited number of file parts.
  • The multipart body parser accepts an unlimited number of field parts.
  • The multipart body parser accepts an unlimited number of empty parts as field
    parts.

Patches

This is fixed in v7.4.1 (for Fastify v4.x) and v6.0.1 (for Fastify v3.x).

Workarounds

There are no known workaround.

References

Reported at https://hackerone.com/reports/1816195.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
high
Advisory on GitHub
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Source code
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Published (advisory)
2023-02-14 21:49:55 UTC
Updated
2023-02-22 18:35:10 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2023-02-14 21:49:55 UTC
NVD published
2023-02-14

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.71% 71.83%

CVSS Scores

Base score Version Severity Vector
7.5 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.

Identifiers

CWEs

CWE id Name
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Credits

  • das7pad (analyst)

Affected packages (2)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
npm @fastify/multipart < 6.0.1 6.0.1
npm @fastify/multipart >= 7.0.0, < 7.4.1 7.4.1

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence