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CVE-2026-54571: ESPAsyncWebServer: Integer overflow in multipart boundary parser causes denial of service

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.7 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-17 · updated 2026-09-24
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

ESPAsyncWebServer is an asynchronous HTTP and WebSocket server library for ESP32, ESP8266, RP2040 and RP2350. Prior to 3.11.1, the multipart/form-data parser in src/WebRequest.cpp stores _boundaryPosition as an 8-bit value while _parseMultipartPostByte processes the boundary. A remote request containing an exactly 256-byte multipart boundary wraps _boundaryPosition from 255 to zero, prevents the boundary parsing loop from terminating, consumes excessive CPU, and triggers a FreeRTOS watchdog reset on affected ESP32 or ESP8266 devices. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.1.

Affected products

• ESP32Async ESPAsyncWebServer: before 3.11.1

References

• https://github.com/ESP32Async/ESPAsyncWebServer/commit/b928de7cbd7debcd6266ece6a6c46f10a86d3a6f
• https://github.com/ESP32Async/ESPAsyncWebServer/pull/445
• https://github.com/ESP32Async/ESPAsyncWebServer/releases/tag/v3.11.1
• https://github.com/ESP32Async/ESPAsyncWebServer/security/advisories/GHSA-4phx-fcj6-46r4

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