High severity · published Sep 11, 2026
CVE-2026-87908
multiparty vulnerable to Denial of Service via unbounded part-header accumulation
7.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
multiparty is a Node.js library for parsing multipart/form-data request bodies. In versions from 2.1.0 up to but not including 4.3.1, the parser does not bound the amount of memory used while accumulating the headers of a single multipart part. An unauthenticated attacker can send a single request whose part carries a very large volume of header bytes, forcing the parser to buffer all of them and exhausting the process memory, which crashes the server. This is a denial of service with no confidentiality or integrity impact. The issue is fixed in multiparty 4.3.1, which caps the size of the accumulated part headers. Users should upgrade to multiparty 4.3.1 or later.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 43% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MU
multiparty · multiparty
2.1.0 before 4.3.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-87908
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-87908
cna.openjsf.org
https://cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.html
github.com
https://github.com/pillarjs/multiparty/security/advisories/GHSA-5h46-2939-q3wh
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