Security Advisory

CVE-2026-8159

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-05-12 08:35:39
Last updated 2026-05-12 12:33:59
Assigner openjs
State PUBLISHED

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.