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Vulnerability · Published Sep 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2025-58754Axios is vulnerable to DoS attack through lack of data size check

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity resource allocation without limits in axios from axios. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 68% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.2%top 31.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12node-axiosno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-58754
Debian:13node-axiosno fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2025-58754
Debian:14node-axios1.12.1+dfsg-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-58754
Ubuntu:25.10node-axiosno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-58754
npmaxios1.12.0GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj
npmaxios0.30.2GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
axios axios >= 1.0.0, < 1.12.0>= 0.28.0, < 0.30.2

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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