# CVE-2025-54801: Fiber Susceptible to Crash via \`BodyParser\` Due to Unvalidated Large Slice Index in Decoder

- Also known as: GO-2025-3845, GHSA-QX2Q-88MX-VHG7
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.52.9
- Published: 2025-08-05 · Updated: 2025-08-07

## Affected

- gofiber fiber: fixed in 2.52.9
- github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.52.9

## Description

Fiber is an Express inspired web framework written in Go. In versions 2.52.8 and below, when using Fiber's Ctx.BodyParser to parse form data containing a large numeric key that represents a slice index (e.g., test.18446744073704), the application crashes due to an out-of-bounds slice allocation in the underlying schema decoder. The root cause is that the decoder attempts to allocate a slice of length idx + 1 without validating whether the index is within a safe or reasonable range. If the idx is excessively large, this leads to an integer overflow or memory exhaustion, causing a panic or crash. This is fixed in version 2.52.9.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gofiber fiber, github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2, upgrade to a fixed version (2.52.9) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/gofiber/fiber/security/advisories/GHSA-qx2q-88mx-vhg7
- https://github.com/gofiber/fiber/commit/e115c08b8f059a4a031b492aa9eef0712411853d

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