CVE-2025-58754Axios is vulnerable to DoS attack through lack of data size check
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 31% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits1
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.2% · top 31% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References
References8
- https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/7011 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/7034 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/945435fc51467303768202250debb8d4ae892593 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/a1b1d3f073a988601583a604f5f9f5d05a3d0b67 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/c30252f685e8f4326722de84923fcbc8cf557f06 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v0.30.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.12.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-28992 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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