AIKIDO-2025-10436
multer is vulnerable to Uncaught Exception
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High Risk
This Affects:
multerTL;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.
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