GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/06/GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg/GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg.json
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https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg
Aliases
Downstream
CGA (2)
MINI (1)
Published
2025-06-05T01:09:35Z
Modified
2026-07-17T21:07:33Z
Severity
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception
Details

Impact

A vulnerability in Multer versions >=1.4.4-lts.1, <2.0.1 allows an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending an upload file request with an empty string field name. This request causes an unhandled exception, leading to a crash of the process.

Patches

Users should upgrade to 2.0.1

Workarounds

None

References

https://github.com/expressjs/multer/commit/35a3272b611945155e046dd5cef11088587635e9 https://github.com/expressjs/multer/issues/1233 https://github.com/expressjs/multer/pull/1256

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-248"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-06-05T01:09:35Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-03T19:15:39Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
}
References

Affected packages

npm / multer

Package

Name
multer
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Purl
pkg:npm/multer

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
1.4.4-lts.1
Fixed
2.0.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/06/GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg/GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg.json"