diff --git a/axum/CHANGELOG.md b/axum/CHANGELOG.md
index 0379672c..54792597 100644
--- a/axum/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/axum/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+# Unreleased
+
+- **breaking:** The tuple and tuple_struct `Path` extractor deserializers now check that the number of parameters matches the tuple length exactly ([#2931])
+
+[#2931]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum/pull/2931
+
 # 0.7.6
 
 - **change:** Avoid cloning `Arc` during deserialization of `Path`
diff --git a/axum/src/extract/path/de.rs b/axum/src/extract/path/de.rs
index 8ba8a431..2d0b04f5 100644
--- a/axum/src/extract/path/de.rs
+++ b/axum/src/extract/path/de.rs
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ impl<'de> Deserializer<'de> for PathDeserializer<'de> {
     where
         V: Visitor<'de>,
     {
-        if self.url_params.len() < len {
+        if self.url_params.len() != len {
             return Err(PathDeserializationError::wrong_number_of_parameters()
                 .got(self.url_params.len())
                 .expected(len));
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ impl<'de> Deserializer<'de> for PathDeserializer<'de> {
     where
         V: Visitor<'de>,
     {
-        if self.url_params.len() < len {
+        if self.url_params.len() != len {
             return Err(PathDeserializationError::wrong_number_of_parameters()
                 .got(self.url_params.len())
                 .expected(len));
@@ -773,20 +773,6 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
-    #[test]
-    fn test_parse_tuple_ignoring_additional_fields() {
-        let url_params = create_url_params(vec![
-            ("a", "abc"),
-            ("b", "true"),
-            ("c", "1"),
-            ("d", "false"),
-        ]);
-        assert_eq!(
-            <(&str, bool, u32)>::deserialize(PathDeserializer::new(&url_params)).unwrap(),
-            ("abc", true, 1)
-        );
-    }
-
     #[test]
     fn test_parse_map() {
         let url_params = create_url_params(vec![("a", "1"), ("b", "true"), ("c", "abc")]);
@@ -813,6 +799,18 @@ mod tests {
         };
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn test_parse_tuple_too_many_fields() {
+        test_parse_error!(
+            vec![("a", "abc"), ("b", "true"), ("c", "1"), ("d", "false"),],
+            (&str, bool, u32),
+            ErrorKind::WrongNumberOfParameters {
+                got: 4,
+                expected: 3,
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn test_wrong_number_of_parameters_error() {
         test_parse_error!(
diff --git a/axum/src/extract/path/mod.rs b/axum/src/extract/path/mod.rs
index 330e270e..fda8364c 100644
--- a/axum/src/extract/path/mod.rs
+++ b/axum/src/extract/path/mod.rs
@@ -747,6 +747,33 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    #[crate::test]
+    async fn tuple_param_matches_exactly() {
+        #[allow(dead_code)]
+        #[derive(Deserialize)]
+        struct Tuple(String, String);
+
+        let app = Router::new()
+            .route("/foo/:a/:b/:c", get(|_: Path<(String, String)>| async {}))
+            .route("/bar/:a/:b/:c", get(|_: Path<Tuple>| async {}));
+
+        let client = TestClient::new(app);
+
+        let res = client.get("/foo/a/b/c").await;
+        assert_eq!(res.status(), StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+        assert_eq!(
+            res.text().await,
+            "Wrong number of path arguments for `Path`. Expected 2 but got 3",
+        );
+
+        let res = client.get("/bar/a/b/c").await;
+        assert_eq!(res.status(), StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
+        assert_eq!(
+            res.text().await,
+            "Wrong number of path arguments for `Path`. Expected 2 but got 3",
+        );
+    }
+
     #[crate::test]
     async fn deserialize_into_vec_of_tuples() {
         let app = Router::new().route(