pillarjs/multiparty · Security
multiparty: Denial of Service via Prototype Pollution leads to Uncaught Exception
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-qxch-whhj-8956
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-8161
- 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
[email protected] and lower versions are vulnerable to denial of service via uncaught exception. By sending a multipart/form-data request with a field name that collides with an inherited Object.prototype property (e.g., __proto__, constructor, toString), the parser invokes .push() on the inherited prototype value rather than an array, throwing a TypeError that propagates as an uncaught exception and crashes the process. Any service accepting multipart uploads via multiparty is affected.
Patches
Users should upgrade to [email protected] or higher.
Workarounds
None.
CWEs
- CWE-248 · Uncaught Exception
- CWE-1321 · Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')