CVE-2026-5038

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5038
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-5038.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-5038
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-06-15T14:23:24Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:10Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup of aborted uploads
Details

Impact: multer versions 2.0.0-alpha.1 through 2.1.1 and 3.0.0-alpha.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service when using diskStorage. Aborted or malformed multipart uploads leave orphaned partial files on disk because the Readable.pipe() call does not propagate the stream destroy signal to the underlying fs.WriteStream. An attacker can exhaust disk space by triggering many aborted uploads, with no application bug required.

Patches: Users should upgrade to multer 2.2.0 (2.x line) or 3.0.0-alpha.2 (3.x prerelease). Both versions track in-flight write streams and clean them up on the abort path.

Workarounds: None.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "openjs",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-459"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/5xxx/CVE-2026-5038.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/expressjs/multer

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/expressjs/multer
Events
Introduced
2c8505f207d923dd8de13a9f93a4563e59933665
Fixed
2e2af08157c66cbbc76539ccbd8869097a0c8feb
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:expressjs:multer:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.2.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.1
v2.0.2
v2.1.0
v2.1.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-5038.json"