CVE-2026-82333 (GCVE-0-2026-82333)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 20:12 – Updated: 2026-08-28 20:12
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via oversized array index in field names
Summary
multer is a middleware for handling multipart/form-data in Node.js. A small multipart request with two specially crafted text field names can make multer's field parser synchronously iterate a maximum-length sparse array, blocking the event loop so the process cannot handle other requests. A large numeric array index in the first field allocates a maximum-length sparse array, and a second field with a non-numeric key then triggers a full-length iteration inside the append-field dependency. All versions before 2.3.0 are affected, and this is a remotely triggerable denial of service. multer 2.3.0 adds an opt-in fieldArrayIndexLimit option that rejects oversized array indexes. Upgrade to multer 2.3.0 and set limits.fieldArrayIndexLimit to the largest array index your application needs to remediate.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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