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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-8192

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Fastify v2.14.1 and v3.0.0-rc.4 that allows a malicious user to trigger resource exhaustion (when the allErrors option is used) with specially crafted schemas.

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1 Nov 2026, 08:08 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-8192

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Jul 2020, 13:15 UTC

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Fastify v2.14.1 and v3.0.0-rc.4 that allows a malicious user to trigger resource exhaustion (when the allErrors option is used) with specially crafted schemas.

osv:CVE-2020-8192
Complete source record
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:03.509492158Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 440273,
  "published_at": "2020-07-30T13:15:11.313+00:00"
}