CVE-2025-58754
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 67% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-770
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- axios:axios
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj | npm | axios | >=1.0.0 <1.12.0 | 1.12.0 |
| GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj | npm | axios | >=0.28.0 <0.30.2 | 0.30.2 |
References
- 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/pull/7011
- https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/7034