AWS Lambda parser is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-7560 · GHSA-6jqp-j69q-pm62 · Published 04/03/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-7560 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting aws-lambda-multipart-parser (aws-lambda-multipart-parser project), aws-lambda-multipart-parser.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 71.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.1.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
aws-lambda-multipart-parser aws-lambda-multipart-parser_project	`≤ 0.1.1`	No fix yet
aws-lambda-multipart-parser npm	`< 0.1.2`	`0.1.2`

Description

index.js in the aws-lambda-multipart-parser NPM package before 0.1.2 has a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue via a crafted multipart/form-data boundary string.

NVD description

index.js in the Anton Myshenin aws-lambda-multipart-parser NPM package before 0.1.2 has a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue via a crafted multipart/form-data boundary string.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7560 · ADVISORY
myshenin/aws-lambda-multipart-parser commit 56ccb03 · WEB
GitHub Advisory GHSA-6jqp-j69q-pm62 · ADVISORY
myshenin/aws-lambda-multipart-parser · PACKAGE

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