MultipartyApplication · Pillarjs

CVE-2026-8159

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-05-12
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 4.3.0 or later.
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84/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
[email protected] 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 [email protected] or higher.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · high confidence

The multiparty library versions 4.2.3 and below contain a vulnerable regular expression in the Content-Disposition filename parameter parser. Attackers can trigger catastrophic backtracking by sending crafted multipart uploads with long header values (~8KB), causing the regex matching to hang and block the Node.js event loop, resulting in denial of service.

MitigationUpgrade multiparty to version 4.3.0 or higher. As an additional layer of defense, implement upload size limits at the gateway/proxy layer to reduce the attack surface.

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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
MultipartyApplication
Affected:< 4.3.0

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

Work through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.

  1. Identify multiparty installation
    Run 'npm list multiparty' or check package.json dependencies to see if multiparty is listed and note the installed version
    Affected if The installed version is below 4.3.0 or no version is shown (meaning it may be a dev dependency or unresolved)
  2. Verify the application processes multipart uploads
    Search your codebase for 'form.parse' or 'multiparty.Form' usage, or look for middleware configurations that handle multipart form data
    Affected if The application uses form.parse() to process file uploads, which triggers the vulnerable Content-Disposition parser
  3. Confirm filename handling is enabled
    Inspect the multipart configuration options - look for whether 'uploadDir' or 'maxFieldsSize' options are set and whether incoming requests include Content-Disposition headers with filename parameters
    Affected if File uploads are accepted and the code processes the filename parameter from Content-Disposition headers
  4. Check for input size limits
    Review your application code and any proxy/gateway configuration (load balancer, API gateway, nginx) for limits on request body size or individual field sizes
    Affected if No size limits are configured on uploaded file content or header fields, allowing the ~8KB crafted payloads to reach the vulnerable regex

You are affected if multiparty version is below 4.3.0 and your application processes multipart file uploads without request/header size restrictions.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 4.3.0 or later
Fixed in 4.3.0
Interim mitigation

Upgrade multiparty to version 4.3.0 or higher. As an additional layer of defense, implement upload size limits at the gateway/proxy layer to reduce the attack surface.

Recommended fix High confidence

[email protected] or higher

  1. Run `npm list multiparty` to confirm the current installed version
  2. Run `npm install [email protected]` to install the fixed version, or run `npm update multiparty` to get the latest version
  3. Verify the upgrade was successful by running `npm list multiparty` and confirming the version is 4.3.0 or higher
  4. Rebuild and redeploy any services that use multiparty to apply the fix
  5. Test that multipart form uploads still function correctly after the upgrade

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

Fix this in Multiparty Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation2.0 h
  • Implementation2.0 h
  • Testing4.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
10.0 hours of engineering $1,720
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