TI-2025-31125 Aliases CVE-2025-48997 GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg

Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via unhandled exception

MEDIUM 44CWE-248Published 2025-06-03 · Updated 2025-06-03

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Attack requirements: None
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-248.

Summary

Multer is a node.js middleware for handling `multipart/form-data`. A vulnerability that is present starting in version 1.4.4-lts.1 and prior to version 2.0.1 allows an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending an upload file request with an empty string field name. This request causes an unhandled exception, leading to a crash of the process. Users should upgrade to `2.0.1` to receive a patch. No known workarounds are available.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00482 41st percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Partial multer (expressjs): 2.0.1multer (npm): 2.0.1Red Hat: 1 advisoryRed Hat: 1 fixed, 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
expressjs	multer	1.4.4-lts.1 to before 2.0.1	2.0.1	Patch available	CNA
—	multer (npm)	1.4.4-lts.1 to before 2.0.1	2.0.1	Patch available	GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg

multer Vendorexpressjs Affected 1.4.4-lts.1 to before 2.0.1 Fixed in 2.0.1 Patch available CNA
multer (npm) Vendor— Affected 1.4.4-lts.1 to before 2.0.1 Fixed in 2.0.1 Patch available GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:expressjs:multer::::::::	—	—	expressjs

cpe:2.3:a:expressjs:multer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·expressjs

Remediation

Fix · CNA multer (expressjs) Fixed in 2.0.1
Fix · GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg multer (npm) Fixed in 2.0.1 Advisory →

Red Hat 1 advisory

RHSA-2025:14090 Released 2025-08-19 · Red Hat rating Important
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.7.0 release.
- Red Hat Developer Hub 1.7 registry.redhat.io/rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Product	Status	Plan or fix
OpenShift Serverless	Affected	No fix yet: Fix deferred
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.7	Fixed	RHSA-2025:14090

Not affected: 2 products

Red Hat Developer Hub 1
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.7

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-48997
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg
2026-10-27 Affected versions changed · Red Hat

References

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48997

Other 5

TI-2024-08602 Open redirect in expressjs express CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.7
TI-2026-03033 Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via uncontrolled recursion CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2026-02853 Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2026-01995 Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via resource exhaustion CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2025-30337 Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service from maliciously crafted requests CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2025-30328 Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via memory leaks from unclosed streams CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

See all 21 →

Sources

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