GHSA-72gw-mp4g-v24j

Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via deeply nested field names

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-5079
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

### Impact Multer is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) via deeply nested field names in multipart form data. The `append-field` dependency parses bracket notation in field names (e.g., `a[b][c]`) with no limit on nesting depth, allowing an attacker to force allocation of deeply nested object structures that consume CPU and memory. A single HTTP request with a crafted multipart body is sufficient to exploit this. ### Patches Users should upgrade to `2.2.0` and configure `limits.fieldNestingDepth` to the minimum depth their application requires. ### Workarounds Set `limits.fields` to a reasonable value to reduce the number of fields an attacker can send per request. This does not fully mitigate the issue but limits the impact.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
npm · multerintroduced 1.0.0, fixed 2.2.0
npm · multerintroduced 3.0.0-alpha.1, fixed 3.0.0-alpha.2

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database