Medium

@fastify/busboy vulnerable to CRLF injection via multipart Content-Disposition filename and name

  • Disclosed: 05.10.2026
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Impact

@fastify/busboy 3.2.1 and earlier retains a bare carriage return or line feed inside the parsed Content-Disposition parameters returned to the application. The multipart header parser ends a header line only on the two-byte \r\n sequence, so a lone CR or LF embedded in a part header is carried verbatim into the filename and field name delivered by the file and field events. An application that forwards the supplied filename or name into a CR/LF-sensitive sink cannot anticipate the embedded control character.

An attacker who uploads a file whose filename or field name contains a bare CR or LF can pollute filenames on disk when the upload is saved under its original name, inject forged lines into logs, or inject headers on a downstream hop that does not re-validate CR/LF, such as object-storage metadata or a proxied backend. Applications using @fastify/busboy directly, or through @fastify/multipart and its consumers, are affected.

Patches

Upgrade to @fastify/busboy 3.2.2 or later.

Workarounds

Validate or strip carriage return and line feed characters from the filename and field name before using them in any filesystem, logging, or outbound-header context.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package @fastify/busboy < 3.2.2 3.2.2

References

CVSS score 5.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-93
Platform
npm
Package
@fastify/busboy
Disclosed
05.10.2026
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-gxm5-99cw-xjw9 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: @fastify/busboy

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
3
First → latest
10.2026 10.2026
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 2
  • Medium 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2026: 3
  1. @fastify/busboy vulnerable to CRLF injection via multipart Content-Disposition filename and name this entry
    Medium · 5.8 CVE-2026-74866 < 3.2.2 3.2.2

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