The Empty Threat: How a Blank Field Name Crashed Servers (CVE-2025-48997 in Multer)
Ever thought an empty string could bring your server to its knees? Well, buckle up, because that's exactly what happened with CVE-2025-48997, a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in Multer, the popular Node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data (primarily used for file uploads). If your Node.js