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CVE-2026-8159
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-05-12T10:16:48.857 · Last modified 2026-06-17T11:03:34.277

Summary

[email protected] and lower versions are vulnerable to denial of service via regular expression backtracking in the Content-Disposition filename parameter parser. A crafted multipart upload with a long header value can cause regex matching to take seconds, blocking the event loop. Impact: any service accepting multipart uploads via multiparty is affected. Workarounds: limiting upload sizes at the proxy or gateway layer reduces but does not eliminate the attack surface, since a small header of around 8 KB is sufficient to trigger the vulnerable backtracking. Upgrade to [email protected] or higher.

Affected products

pillarjs — multiparty

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References

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