multer is a middleware for handling multipart/form-data in Node.js. A small multipart request containing two specially crafted text field names can cause an uncaught RangeError (Invalid array length) that terminates the Node.js process. The first field uses a very large numeric array index to allocate a maximum-length sparse array, and a second field then pushes past that length, which throws inside the append-field dependency and is not caught by multer. All versions before 2.3.0 are affected, and the issue is a remotely triggerable denial of service. The issue is fixed in multer 2.3.0. Upgrade to multer 2.3.0 to remediate.
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| Description | multer is a middleware for handling multipart/form-data in Node.js. A small multipart request containing two specially crafted text field names can cause an uncaught RangeError (Invalid array length) that terminates the Node.js process. The first field uses a very large numeric array index to allocate a maximum-length sparse array, and a second field then pushes past that length, which throws inside the append-field dependency and is not caught by multer. All versions before 2.3.0 are affected, and the issue is a remotely triggerable denial of service. The issue is fixed in multer 2.3.0. Upgrade to multer 2.3.0 to remediate. | |
| Title | multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via crafted multipart field names | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-248 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: openjs
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Updated: 2026-08-28T20:03:23.114Z
Reserved: 2026-08-20T10:53:48.073Z
Link: CVE-2026-77078
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-28T22:16:53.883
Modified: 2026-08-28T22:16:53.883
Link: CVE-2026-77078
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