Bug 2526575 - CVE-2026-5038 mozjs140: Multer: Denial of Service via aborted or malformed multipart uploads [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-5038 mozjs140: Multer: Denial of Service via aborted or malformed mu...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mozjs140
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: František Zatloukal
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Blocks: CVE-2026-5038
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Reported: 2026-08-31 22:21 UTC by Jon Weiser
Modified: 2026-08-31 22:21 UTC (History)
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Description Jon Weiser 2026-08-31 22:21:44 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Impact: multer versions 2.0.0-alpha.1 through 2.1.1 and 3.0.0-alpha.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service when using diskStorage. Aborted or malformed multipart uploads leave orphaned partial files on disk because the Readable.pipe() call does not propagate the stream destroy signal to 
the underlying fs.WriteStream. An attacker can exhaust disk space by triggering many aborted uploads, with no application bug required.

Patches: Users should upgrade to multer 2.2.0 (2.x line) or 3.0.0-alpha.2 (3.x prerelease). Both versions track in-flight write streams and clean them up on the abort path.

Workarounds: None.


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