Axios up to 1.11.x allocation of resources

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Axios up to 1.11.x. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation results in allocation of resources. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-58754. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Axios up to 1.11.x. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-58754 since 09/04/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 264701 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-58754), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.12.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 945435fc51467303768202250debb8d4ae892593 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (264701), EUVD (EUVD-2025-28992) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2134). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• IBM MQ

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• Axios

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/axios/axios/

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