CVE-2026-8159

high

Description

[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.

References

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS

https://github.com/pillarjs/multiparty/security/advisories/GHSA-65x3-rw7q-gx94

https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-12

Updated: 2026-05-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00038