@fastify/busboy vulnerable to Denial of Service via oversized multipart boundary
### 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.
GHSA-xjh9-v7x6-24jw
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Source reference: osv:GHSA-xjh9-v7x6-24jw
@fastify/busboy
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- 3.2.1
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]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-19484
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Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /database_specific/severity
- Event
- #72765 · Revision 1
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