multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via file descriptor leak on aborted uploads

Impact A vulnerability in multer 2.2.0 allows an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service DoS by aborting or truncating multipart uploads. When using diskStorage, the destination write stream is not closed if the upload is aborted before it finishes, so each failed request leaks an open file...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-5038

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Impact: multer versions 2.0.0-alpha.1 through 2.1.1 and 3.0.0-alpha.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service when using diskStorage. Aborted or malformed multipa...

Incomplete Cleanup

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incomplete Cleanup in the diskStorage function. An attacker can exhaust disk space by repeatedly initiating and aborting multipart uploads, causing orphaned partial files to accumulate on disk. Remediation Upgrade multer to version 2.2....