CVE-2025-58754

high

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.

References

https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj

https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.12.0

https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/7011

https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/945435fc51467303768202250debb8d4ae892593

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-12

Updated: 2025-09-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00042