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15 known vulnerabilities (12 high, 2 medium, 1 low), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

Latest release
2.5.0 (Oct 22, 2026): no advisory affects it
Newest unaffected release
2.5.0 (Oct 22, 2026), the latest release
Advisories
15 · 12 high, 2 medium, 1 low
Weekly downloads
31.4M
Dependents
3,484
Releases
58 since 0.0.1 (Feb 1, 2014)
Registry
npm
Releases read
Nov 8, 2026

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Advisories 15

  • multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via a pending asynchronous fileFilter after request teardown

    Affected: from 2.0.0, fixed in 2.5.0.

    Fixed in 2.5.0 (released Oct 22, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    51% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (17.2M).

  • CVE-2026-88932Medium 5.3

    multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via orphaned disk writes on aborted uploads

    Affected: from 2.2.0, fixed in 2.4.0.

    Fixed in 2.4.0 (released Sep 14, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    13% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (4.4M).

  • multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via oversized array index in field names

    Affected: fixed in 2.3.0.

    Fixed in 2.3.0 (released Aug 28, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    49% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (16.5M).

  • multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via crafted multipart field names

    Affected: fixed in 2.3.0.

    Fixed in 2.3.0 (released Aug 28, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    49% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (16.5M).

  • multer vulnerable to file size limit bypass via async fileFilter race condition

    Affected: fixed in 2.3.0.

    Fixed in 2.3.0 (released Aug 28, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    49% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (16.5M).

  • multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via file descriptor leak on aborted uploads

    Affected: from 2.2.0, fixed in 2.3.0.

    Fixed in 2.3.0 (released Aug 28, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    8.5% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (2.9M).

  • CVE-2026-5038Medium 5.3

    multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup of aborted uploads

    Affected: from 2.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 2.2.0; from 3.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 3.0.0-alpha.2.

    Fixed in 2.2.0 (released Jun 15, 2026, the day of disclosure) and 3.0.0-alpha.2 (released Jun 15, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    22% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (7.6M).

  • multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via deeply nested field names

    Affected: from 1.0.0, fixed in 2.2.0; from 3.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 3.0.0-alpha.2.

    Fixed in 2.2.0 (released Jun 15, 2026, the day of disclosure) and 3.0.0-alpha.2 (released Jun 15, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    40% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (13.6M).

  • Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via uncontrolled recursion

    Affected: fixed in 2.1.1.

    Fixed in 2.1.1 (released Mar 4, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    32% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (11M).

  • Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup

    Affected: fixed in 2.1.0.

    Fixed in 2.1.0 (released Feb 27, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    32% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (10.9M).

  • Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via resource exhaustion

    Affected: fixed in 2.1.0.

    Fixed in 2.1.0 (released Feb 27, 2026, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    32% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (10.9M).

  • Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception from malformed request

    Affected: from 1.4.4-lts.1, fixed in 2.0.2.

    Fixed in 2.0.2 (released Jul 17, 2025, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    18% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (6.1M).

  • Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception

    Affected: from 1.4.4-lts.1, fixed in 2.0.1.

    Fixed in 2.0.1 (released Jun 3, 2025, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    17% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (5.7M).

  • Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service from maliciously crafted requests

    Affected: from 1.4.4-lts.1, fixed in 2.0.0.

    Fixed in 2.0.0 (released May 19, 2025, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    17% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (5.7M).

  • Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via memory leaks from unclosed streams

    Affected: fixed in 2.0.0.

    Fixed in 2.0.0 (released May 19, 2025, the day of disclosure).

    The latest release, 2.5.0, is not affected.

    18% of multer downloads last week were affected versions (6M).