CVE-2026-8159 – multiparty vulnerable to ReDoS via filename parsing

CVE ID :CVE-2026-8159

Published : May 12, 2026, 10:16 a.m. | 14 minutes ago

Description :multiparty@4.2.3 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 multiparty@4.3.0 or higher.

Severity: 7.5 | HIGH

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