CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-5038

7.5 HIGH Published 2026-06-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-06-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb
CVSS 3.1 (ce714d77-add3-4f53-aff5-83d477b104bb)
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-459

Description

Impact: multer versions 2.0.0-alpha.1 through 2.1.1 and 3.0.0-alpha.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service when using diskStorage. Aborted or malformed multipart uploads leave orphaned partial files on disk because the Readable.pipe() call does not propagate the stream destroy signal to the underlying fs.WriteStream. An attacker can exhaust disk space by triggering many aborted uploads, with no application bug required. Patches: Users should upgrade to multer 2.2.0 (2.x line) or 3.0.0-alpha.2 (3.x prerelease). Both versions track in-flight write streams and clean them up on the abort path. Workarounds: None.

Affected configurations

• expressjs multer (>= 2.0.0 < 2.2.0) • expressjs multer 3.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup weakness

References