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MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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.
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.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-5038
Source
openjs
Published
Jun 15, 2026 at 14:23
Affected Product
Vendor
multer
Product
multer
Version
2.0.0-alpha.1
Affected Versions
multer multer 2.0.0-alpha.1
multer multer 3.0.0-alpha.1
multer multer 3.0.0-alpha.1