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

References