CVE-2026-77078

Summary

multer is a middleware for handling multipart/form-data in Node.js. A small multipart request containing two specially crafted text field names can cause an uncaught RangeError (Invalid array length) that terminates the Node.js process. The first field uses a very large numeric array index to allocate a maximum-length sparse array, and a second field then pushes past that length, which throws inside the append-field dependency and is not caught by multer. All versions before 2.3.0 are affected, and the issue is a remotely triggerable denial of service. The issue is fixed in multer 2.3.0. Upgrade to multer 2.3.0 to remediate.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
multermulter0 < 2.3.0affected
multermulter2.3.0unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-248: CWE-248: Uncaught Exception

References