CVE-2026-119202
Received Received - Intake

Content-Disposition Header Parsing DoS in hapi/content

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-119202, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-10-29

Last updated on: 2026-10-29

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

Description

@hapi/content provides HTTP Content-* header parsing. From 3.0.6 until 6.0.3, Content.disposition() uses an unanchored parameter-name expression in a global regular-expression scan, causing repeated failed matching over the remaining input when a Content-Disposition parameter contains a long token without an equals sign. The resulting quadratic processing can block the Node.js event loop before route handlers or validation when @hapi/pez parses multipart/form-data headers, including unauthenticated hapi routes with payload.multipart enabled, and also affects applications that pass untrusted headers directly to Content.disposition(). This issue is fixed in @hapi/content version 6.0.3.

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Published
2026-10-29
Last Modified
2026-10-29
Generated
2026-10-30
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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hapijs content < 6.0.3

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CWE-1333 The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.

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