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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-88932 EUVD-2026-77332GHSA-3pph-fpjx-jg34

multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via orphaned disk writes on aborted uploads

Published Sep 14, 2026 · Updated Sep 14, 2026 · Assigned by openjs

Description

multer is a Node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data uploads. In versions 2.2.0 through 2.3.0, when a request using disk storage is aborted mid-upload, file writes that complete after multer has already run its abort cleanup are not removed, so each aborted upload can leave an orphaned file on disk. A remote unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly start and abort uploads to accumulate orphaned files and exhaust disk space, causing a denial of service. The issue is fixed in multer 2.4.0, and users should upgrade to 2.4.0 or later.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
multer multer 2.2.0 – < 2.4.0 2.4.0

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, < 2.4.0 2.4.0 GHSA-3pph-fpjx-jg34

References