Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. When Axios prior to version 1.11.0 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'`. Version 1.11.0 contains a patch for the issue.
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Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. When Axios prior to version 1.11.0 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'`. Version 1.11.0 contains a patch for the issue. | |
| Title | Axios is vulnerable to DoS attack through lack of data size check | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2025-09-12T01:16:40.513Z
Reserved: 2025-09-04T19:18:09.499Z
Link: CVE-2025-58754
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NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2025-09-12T02:15:46.873
Modified: 2025-09-12T02:15:46.873
Link: CVE-2025-58754
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