mediumCVSS 5.3Vulnerability

CVE-2026-88932

### Impact Multer's `diskStorage` can leave complete, orphaned files on disk when a multipart upload is aborted in the brief window before the storage engine assigns the file path. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2026-5038: the earlier cleanup removes only in-flight uploads that already have a path, so an upload aborted inside that window is written to disk with nothing left to remove it, and the application is not given a handle to clean it up. An unauthenticated attacker sending aborted requests to any route backed by disk storage can accumulate orphaned files until the upload directory or the shared system temporary directory is exhausted. An asynchronous `destination` or `filename` widens the window. ### Patches Users should upgrade to `2.4.0` or higher. ### Workarounds None.

Properties

severity
medium
summary
multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via orphaned disk writes on aborted uploads
cvss_score
5.3
retrieved_at
2026-09-29T00:57:22+00:00
ghsa_published
2026-09-28T21:34:58Z
source_url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3pph-fpjx-jg34
ghsa_updated
2026-09-28T21:34:59Z
ghsa_id
GHSA-3pph-fpjx-jg34
last_source
GitHub Advisory Database
cve_id
CVE-2026-88932
cvss_vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
signal_observed_at
2026-09-29T00:57:22+00:00
is_ghsa_only
false

Related Entities (5)

VULNERABLE_TO (1)

←[Software]npm/multer

AFFECTS (1)

→[Software]npm/multer

HAS_WEAKNESS (2)

→[Weakness]Incomplete Cleanup
→[Weakness]Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

REPORTED_BY (1)

→[Source]GitHub Advisory Database

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