CVE-2025-58754
Axios is vulnerable to DoS attack through lack of data size check
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Sep 12, 2025
- Updated
- Jan 16, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 4, 2025
Description
Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. When Axios starting in version 0.28.0 and prior to versions 0.30.2 and 1.12.0 runs on Node.js and is given a URL with the `data:` scheme, it does not perform HTTP. Instead, its Node http adapter decodes the entire payload into memory (`Buffer`/`Blob`) and returns a synthetic 200 response. This path ignores `maxContentLength` / `maxBodyLength` (which only protect HTTP responses), so an attacker can supply a very large `data:` URI and cause the process to allocate unbounded memory and crash (DoS), even if the caller requested `responseType: 'stream'`. Versions 0.30.2 and 1.12.0 contain a patch for the issue.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
axiosaxios |
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References
- https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj
- https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/7011
- https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/7034
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/945435fc51467303768202250debb8d4ae892593
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/a1b1d3f073a988601583a604f5f9f5d05a3d0b67
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/c30252f685e8f4326722de84923fcbc8cf557f06
- https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v0.30.2
- https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.12.0
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