expressjs/multer · Security
Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception from malformed request
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-fjgf-rc76-4x9p
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-7338
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Impact
A vulnerability in Multer versions >= 1.4.4-lts.1, < 2.0.2 allows an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a malformed request. This request causes an unhandled exception, leading to a crash of the process.
Patches
Users should upgrade to 2.0.2
Workarounds
None
CWEs
- CWE-248 · Uncaught Exception
References
- https://github.com/expressjs/multer/security/advisories/GHSA-fjgf-rc76-4x9p ↗
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7338 ↗
- https://github.com/expressjs/multer/commit/adfeaf669f0e7fe953eab191a762164a452d143b ↗
- https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjgf-rc76-4x9p ↗