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Insecurely deleted files In multer

Description

Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via incomplete cleanup of aborted uploads

Impact

A vulnerability in Multer allows an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by aborting or sending malformed multipart uploads, causing orphaned partial files to accumulate on disk when using diskStorage.

Patches

Users should upgrade to 2.2.0, 3.0.0-alpha.2 or higher

Workarounds

None

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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