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CVE-2026-88932 json

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

published last mo. modified last mo. also EUVD-2026-77332 , GHSA-3pph-fpjx-jg34

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • npm multer 2.4.0
  • multer multer 2.4.0
  • node-multer Debian 14 2.4.0+~cs3.2.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88932

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-88932 updated cvss 5.3

multer: multer: Denial of Service via orphaned disk writes on aborted uploads

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal 1790254963
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:72712
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal 1790256405, ansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9 1791865660
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:72722
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 1791311495, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-lightspeed-backend 1791242697, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-orchestrator-backend 1791251282
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:76788
  • Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp2/system-rhel8
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10 rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator 1791219676, rhdh/rhdh-operator-bundle 1791315788, rhdh/rhdh-must-gather-rhel9 1788278523, rhdh/rhdh-rag-content-rhel9 1791168570, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-lightspeed 1791242743, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-orchestrator 1791250003, +3 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm multer
>=2.2.0, <2.4.0
2.4.0

Affected products

  • multer multer

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of expressjs/multer published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.