# CVE-2022-31019: DoS Vulnerability in URLEncodedFormDecoder in Vapor

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.61.1
- Published: 2022-06-06 · Updated: 2025-04-22

## Affected

- vapor: fixed in 4.61.1

## Description

Vapor is a server-side Swift HTTP web framework. When using automatic content decoding an attacker can craft a request body that can make the server crash with the following request: `curl -d "array[_0][0][array][_0][0][array]$(for f in $(seq 1100); do echo -n '[_0][0][array]'; done)[string][_0]=hello%20world" http://localhost:8080/foo`. The issue is unbounded, attacker controlled stack growth which will at some point lead to a stack overflow and a process crash. This issue has been fixed in version 4.61.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on vapor, upgrade to a fixed version (4.61.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/vapor/vapor/security/advisories/GHSA-qvxg-wjxc-r4gg
- https://github.com/vapor/vapor/commit/6c63226a4ab82ce53730eb1afb9ca63866fcf033

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