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AIKIDO-2025-10436

multer is vulnerable to Uncaught Exception

Uncaught ExceptionCVE-2025-48997 Published Jul 7, 2025

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High Risk

This Affects:

JSmulter
1.4.4-lts.1 - 2.0.0
Fixed in 2.0.2
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TL;DR

Multer, a Node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data, contains a vulnerability in versions 1.4.4-lts.1 up to 2.0.0. An attacker can exploit this flaw to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by submitting a file upload request with an empty string as a field name. This results in an unhandled exception, causing the process to crash.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

multer is vulnerable to Uncaught Exception in versions 1.4.4-lts.1 - 2.0.0.

How to fix this

Upgrade the Multer library to the patch version.