CVE 5.3 MEDIUM

multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup of aborted uploads_CVE-2026-5038

5.3 / 10
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.

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

CWE Classification

References

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