CVE-2026-25762
Published: 06 February 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-25762 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) vulnerability in Adonisjs Bodyparser. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked at the 5.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Likely Mitigating ControlsAI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Limiting concurrent sessions directly prevents uncontrolled resource consumption by capping the number of active sessions per user or account.
Contingency plan testing includes resource exhaustion scenarios to verify recovery, making it harder for attackers to sustain exploits that cause uncontrolled consumption.
Updated contingency plans include current procedures to detect, contain, and recover from resource exhaustion, limiting an attacker's ability to sustain impact from uncontrolled consumption.
Alternate site allows resumption of operations if resource exhaustion at the primary site is exploited to cause unavailability.
Alternate telecommunications services enable resumption of essential functions when primary services become unavailable due to uncontrolled resource consumption.
Planning and coordination of security activities (scans, tests, maintenance) directly imposes scheduling and throttling that prevents those activities from producing uncontrolled resource consumption.
Performance metrics and monitoring inherently track resource consumption patterns, making uncontrolled consumption easier to detect and mitigate.
Terminating idle connections bounds resource consumption that would otherwise allow uncontrolled accumulation of open sessions.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
The CVE describes a remotely exploitable vulnerability in a public-facing web framework component that allows crafted requests to trigger uncontrolled memory consumption, directly enabling adversaries to crash the application and deny service via software vulnerability exploitation.
NVD Description
AdonisJS is a TypeScript-first web framework. Prior to versions 10.1.3 and 11.0.0-next.9, a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the multipart file handling logic of @adonisjs/bodyparser. When processing file uploads, the multipart parser may accumulate an unbounded amount of…
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data in memory while attempting to detect file types, potentially leading to excessive memory consumption and process termination. This issue has been patched in versions 10.1.3 and 11.0.0-next.9.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2026-25762 is a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the multipart file handling logic of the @adonisjs/bodyparser package, a component of the AdonisJS TypeScript-first web framework. Affecting versions prior to 10.1.3 and 11.0.0-next.9, the issue arises when the multipart parser accumulates an unbounded amount of data in memory during file type detection on uploads. This leads to excessive memory consumption and potential process termination. The vulnerability is rated 7.5 on the CVSS 3.1 scale (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) and maps to CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) and CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling).
Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability without authentication or user interaction by sending specially crafted multipart file upload requests over the network. The low attack complexity allows unauthenticated parties to trigger memory exhaustion, causing the affected AdonisJS application to crash and deny service to legitimate users.
The vulnerability has been addressed in @adonisjs/bodyparser versions 10.1.3 and 11.0.0-next.9, as detailed in the package release notes and the AdonisJS core security advisory (GHSA-xx9g-fh25-4q64). Security practitioners should upgrade to these patched versions to mitigate the issue.
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