CVE-2026-5038CWE-459

multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup of aborted uploads

Medium · published June 15, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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 record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00488 · 41.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-459 · Incomplete Cleanup
Published
2026-06-15T14:23Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JUN 14:23Z
    multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup of aborted uploads
    cvelistv5