# multer (npm) vulnerabilities

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

## At a glance

- Latest release: 2.5.0 (Oct 22, 2026): no advisory affects it
- Newest unaffected release: 2.5.0 (Oct 22, 2026), the latest release
- Weekly downloads: 31.4M
- Dependents: 3,484
- Releases: 58 since 0.0.1 (Feb 1, 2014)
- Registry: https://www.npmjs.com/package/multer
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2026-113872: 2.0.0 to 2.4.0 (2.5.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-88932: 2.2.0 to 2.3.0 (2.4.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-82333: 0.0.1 to 2.2.0 (2.3.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-77078: 0.0.1 to 2.2.0 (2.3.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-77063: 0.0.1 to 2.2.0 (2.3.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-77037: 2.2.0 (2.3.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-5038: 2.0.0-alpha.1 to 2.1.1 (2.2.0 is outside it); 3.0.0-alpha.1 (3.0.0-alpha.2 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-5079: 1.0.0 to 2.1.1 (2.2.0 is outside it); 3.0.0-alpha.1 (3.0.0-alpha.2 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-3520: 0.0.1 to 2.1.0 (2.1.1 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-3304: 0.0.1 to 2.0.2 (2.1.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2026-2359: 0.0.1 to 2.0.2 (2.1.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2025-7338: 1.4.4-lts.1 to 2.0.1 (2.0.2 is outside it)
- CVE-2025-48997: 1.4.4-lts.1 to 2.0.0 (2.0.1 is outside it)
- CVE-2025-47944: 1.4.4-lts.1 to 2.0.0-rc.4 (2.0.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2025-47935: 0.0.1 to 2.0.0-rc.4 (2.0.0 is outside it)

## Advisories (15)

### [CVE-2026-113872](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-113872): multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via a pending asynchronous fileFilter after request teardown

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Oct 22, 2026
- 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-2026-88932](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-88932): multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via orphaned disk writes on aborted uploads

- Severity: Medium 5.3
- Published: Sep 14, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2026-82333](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-82333): multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via oversized array index in field names

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Aug 28, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2026-77078](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-77078): multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via crafted multipart field names

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Aug 28, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2026-77063](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-77063): multer vulnerable to file size limit bypass via async fileFilter race condition

- Severity: Low 3.7
- Published: Aug 28, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2026-77037](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-77037): multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via file descriptor leak on aborted uploads

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Aug 28, 2026
- 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-2026-5038](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-5038): multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup of aborted uploads

- Severity: Medium 5.3
- Published: Jun 15, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2026-5079](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-5079): multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via deeply nested field names

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Jun 15, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2026-3520](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-3520): Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via uncontrolled recursion

- Severity: High 8.7
- Published: Mar 4, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2026-3304](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-3304): Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup

- Severity: High 8.7
- Published: Feb 27, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2026-2359](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-2359): Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via resource exhaustion

- Severity: High 8.7
- Published: Feb 27, 2026
- 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).

### [CVE-2025-7338](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-7338): Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception from malformed request

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: Jul 17, 2025
- 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).

### [CVE-2025-48997](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-48997): Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception

- Severity: High 8.7
- Published: Jun 3, 2025
- 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).

### [CVE-2025-47944](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-47944): Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service from maliciously crafted requests

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: May 19, 2025
- 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).

### [CVE-2025-47935](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-47935): Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via memory leaks from unclosed streams

- Severity: High 7.5
- Published: May 19, 2025
- 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).

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