diff --git a/package/shellinabox/0002-CVE-2018-16789-fix-for-broken-multipart-form-data.patch b/package/shellinabox/0002-CVE-2018-16789-fix-for-broken-multipart-form-data.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4b15f419e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/shellinabox/0002-CVE-2018-16789-fix-for-broken-multipart-form-data.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From 7f47efe1717c381f86566fabe0b1ced8cb98fe8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: irsl <irsl@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 11:51:15 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] fix for broken multipart/form-data
+
+Malformed multipart/form-data payload results in infinite loop and thus denial of service
+[Upstream status: https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox/pull/446]
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
+---
+ libhttp/url.c | 3 +++
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/libhttp/url.c b/libhttp/url.c
+index ed29475..4177871 100644
+--- a/libhttp/url.c
++++ b/libhttp/url.c
+@@ -312,6 +312,9 @@ static void urlParsePostBody(struct URL *url,
+               }
+             }
+           }
++        } else {
++           warn("[http] broken multipart/form-data!");
++           break;
+         }
+       }
+       if (lastPart) {
diff --git a/package/shellinabox/shellinabox.mk b/package/shellinabox/shellinabox.mk
index 70db551e3c..f4b5a69dbf 100644
--- a/package/shellinabox/shellinabox.mk
+++ b/package/shellinabox/shellinabox.mk
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ SHELLINABOX_SITE = $(call github,shellinabox,shellinabox,$(SHELLINABOX_VERSION))
 SHELLINABOX_LICENSE = GPL-2.0 with OpenSSL exception
 SHELLINABOX_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING GPL-2
 
+# 0002-CVE-2018-16789-fix-for-broken-multipart-form-data.patch
+SHELLINABOX_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2018-16789
+
 # Fetching from Github, and patching Makefile.am, so we need to autoreconf
 SHELLINABOX_AUTORECONF = YES