CVE-2026-77037

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77037
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-77037.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-77037
Aliases
  • GHSA-qfvm-cv95-jqjf
Published
2026-08-28T19:44:23.501Z
Modified
2026-09-05T03:48:04.852090821Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via file descriptor leak on aborted uploads
Details

multer is a middleware for handling multipart/form-data in Node.js. In version 2.2.0, when a disk-backed upload is aborted or truncated before the write stream finishes, multer's disk storage engine removes the visible file but does not close the underlying write file descriptor, leaving a deleted but still open descriptor. A remote attacker able to reach an upload route using the built-in disk storage can send repeated aborted or malformed multipart uploads, each one leaking a file descriptor and retaining disk blocks until the process exits, which can exhaust resources and cause a denial of service. The issue is fixed in multer 2.3.0, which closes the destination write stream on abnormal source termination and defers cleanup until the stream has closed. Upgrade to multer 2.3.0 to remediate.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-400",
        "CWE-459"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "openjs",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/77xxx/CVE-2026-77037.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/expressjs/multer

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/expressjs/multer
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:expressjs:multer:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "CPE_STRING"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.2.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.3.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.2.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.2.0
v2.*
v2.2.0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-77037.json"