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multiparty vulnerable to Denial of Service via Uncaught Exception in filename* parameter parsing

Type: advisorySources: OSV

multiparty@4.2.3 and lower versions are vulnerable to denial of service via uncaught exception. By sending a multipart/form-data request with a Content-Disposition header whose filename* parameter contains a malformed percent-encoding, the parser invokes decodeURI on the value without try/catch. The resulting URIError propagates as an uncaught exception and crashes the process. Impact: any service accepting multipart uploads via multiparty is affected. Workarounds: none. Upgrade to multiparty@4.3.0 or higher.

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CVEs
CVE-2026-8162
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3 Nov 2026, 18:03 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

multiparty vulnerable to Denial of Service via Uncaught Exception in filename* parameter parsing

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 May 2026, 09:05 UTC

multiparty@4.2.3 and lower versions are vulnerable to denial of service via uncaught exception. By sending a multipart/form-data request with a Content-Disposition header whose filename* parameter contains a malformed percent-encoding, the parser invokes decodeURI on the value without try/catch. The resulting URIError propagates as an uncaught exception and crashes the process. Impact: any service accepting multipart uploads via multiparty is affected. Workarounds: none. Upgrade to multiparty@4.3.0 or higher.

osv:CVE-2026-8162
Complete source record
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