CVE-2026-5079: Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via deeply nested field names
Multer is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) via deeply nested field names in multipart form data. The append-field dependency parses bracket notation in field names (e.g., a[b][c]) with no limit on nesting depth, allowing an attacker to force allocation of deeply nested object structures that consume CPU and memory. A single HTTP request with a crafted multipart body is sufficient to exploit this.
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