axios up to 1.17.9 fetch adapter resource consumption

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in axios up to 1.17.9. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component fetch adapter. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-67317. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in axios up to 1.17.9. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component fetch adapter. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

axios versions 1.7.0 before 1.18.0 fail to enforce maxBodyLength for WHATWG ReadableStream request bodies in the fetch adapter when Content-Length cannot be determined. Attackers can supply unknown-length stream data to bypass upload size limits and cause uncontrolled network egress or resource exhaustion.

The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-67317 since 07/29/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.18.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• axios

Version

• 1.17.0
• 1.17.1
• 1.17.2
• 1.17.3
• 1.17.4
• 1.17.5
• 1.17.6
• 1.17.7
• 1.17.8
• 1.17.9

Website

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

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