CVE-2026-8159CWE-1333

multiparty vulnerable to ReDoS via filename parsing

High · published May 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
48.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

[email protected] and lower versions are vulnerable to denial of service via regular expression backtracking in the Content-Disposition filename parameter parser. A crafted multipart upload with a long header value can cause regex matching to take seconds, blocking the event loop. Impact: any service accepting multipart uploads via multiparty is affected. Workarounds: limiting upload sizes at the proxy or gateway layer reduces but does not eliminate the attack surface, since a small header of around 8 KB is sufficient to trigger the vulnerable backtracking. Upgrade to [email protected] or higher.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00616 · 48.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Published
2026-05-12T08:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 MAY 08:35Z
    multiparty vulnerable to ReDoS via filename parsing
    cvelistv5