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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-77037 EUVD-2026-67928GHSA-qfvm-cv95-jqjf

multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via file descriptor leak on aborted uploads

Published Aug 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026 · Assigned by openjs

Description

multer is a middleware for handling multipart/form-data in Node.js. In version 2.2.0, when a disk-backed upload is aborted or truncated before the write stream finishes, multer's disk storage engine removes the visible file but does not close the underlying write file descriptor, leaving a deleted but still open descriptor. A remote attacker able to reach an upload route using the built-in disk storage can send repeated aborted or malformed multipart uploads, each one leaking a file descriptor and retaining disk blocks until the process exits, which can exhaust resources and cause a denial of service. The issue is fixed in multer 2.3.0, which closes the destination write stream on abnormal source termination and defers cleanup until the stream has closed. Upgrade to multer 2.3.0 to remediate.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
multer multer 2.2.0 – < 2.3.0 2.3.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 node-multer 2.4.0+~cs3.2.0-1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm multer >= 2.2.0, < 2.3.0 2.3.0 GHSA-qfvm-cv95-jqjf

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