CVE-2026-44456
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 20 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-23
Hono is a Web application framework that provides support for any JavaScript runtime. Prior to 4.12.16, bodyLimit() does not reliably enforce maxSize for requests without a usable Content-Length (e.g. Transfer-Encoding: chunked). Oversized requests can reach handlers and return 200 instead of 413. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.12.16.
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- GHSA-9vqf-7f2p-gf9vHono: bodyLimit() can be bypassed for chunked / unknown-length requests2026-05-06ghsa · osvUS
## Summary `bodyLimit()` does not reliably enforce `maxSize` for requests without a usable `Content-Length` (e.g. `Transfer-Encoding: chunked`). Oversized requests can reach handlers and return `200` instead of `413`. ## Details For chunked / unknown-length requests, `bodyLimit()` wraps the body in a stream that counts bytes asynchronously, then runs the handler before the size decision is final. The `413` is only applied afterwards by checking `c.error`. This lets the limit be bypassed when: - the handler does not read the body, - the handler reads only the first chunk(s) and returns, or - the handler reads the body but swallows the read error in `try/catch`. In all three cases the handler returns `200` before the limit check completes (or its result is observed). The fix is to enforce the size decision before `next()` runs, instead of retrofitting the response via `c.error` afterwards. ## Impact Applications relying on `bodyLimit()` as a hard boundary can be bypassed: oversized chunked requests can reach handler logic and return successful responses. Per-request data exposure is bounded by `maxSize`, but the documented guarantee — "oversized requests are rejected before business logic runs" — does not hold. ## Credits - @lalalala5678 (slow chunked / early return variants) - @Jvr2022 (error handling bypass)
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