@fastify/busboy vulnerable to CRLF injection via multipart Content-Disposition filename and name
What fixes it
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Description
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.
Text from GitHub Advisory Database
Affected versions 4
- @fastify/busboy, npm< 3.2.2GitHub
- @fastify/busboyaffected: all versions before 3.2.2CVE List
- @fastify/busboyunaffected: 3.2.2CVE List
- @fastify/busboy, npmfrom first release, fixed in 3.2.2OSV
References 6
- github.com/fastify/busboy/commit/cc7da17c5c88d79c314a9e149a79e5a00a6c23beFixvia GitHub
- github.com/fastify/busboy/releases/tag/v3.2.2Fixvia GitHub
- github.com/fastify/busboy/security/advisories/GHSA-gxm5-99cw-xjw9Advisoryvia CVE List
- cna.openjsf.org/security-advisories.htmlAdvisoryvia CVE List
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-gxm5-99cw-xjw9Advisoryvia GitHub
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-74866Referencevia GitHub