axios 0.28.0 before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via formDataToJSON
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-400.
Summary
axios versions 0.28.0 and later contain uncontrolled recursion in formDataToJSON when processing FormData field names with deeply nested bracket segments. Attackers can supply FormData with field names containing thousands of nested brackets to exhaust the JavaScript call stack and trigger RangeError, causing request failure or process termination in applications that do not handle the exception.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| axios | axios | 0.28.0 to before 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | axios (npm) | 0.28.0 to before 0.33.0 | 0.33.0 | Patch available | GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3 |
| — | axios (npm) | 1.0.0 to before 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | Patch available | GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3 |
- axios Vendoraxios Affected 0.28.0 to before 1.18.0 Fixed in 1.18.0 Patch available CNA
- axios (npm) Vendor— Affected 0.28.0 to before 0.33.0 Fixed in 0.33.0 Patch available GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3
- axios (npm) Vendor— Affected 1.0.0 to before 1.18.0 Fixed in 1.18.0 Patch available GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3
Remediation
- Fix · CNA axios (axios) Fixed in 1.18.0
- Fix · GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3 axios (npm) Fixed in 0.33.0 Advisory →
- Fix · GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3 axios (npm) Fixed in 1.18.0 Advisory →
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Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
axios 1.18.0
10 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 3 HIGH, 5 MEDIUM, 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-47617 axios 0.31.1 before 0.33.0 and 1.15.1 before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via maxDepth bypassPriority HIGH 70
- TI-2026-47614 axios 1.13.0 before 1.18.0 maxBodyLength Bypass via HTTP/2Priority HIGH 67
- TI-2026-47615 axios before 0.33.0 Prototype Pollution via nested option objectsPriority MEDIUM 61
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-67313
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3
- 2026-10-13 Fix available: RHSA-2026:81110 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: RHSA-2026:90321 · Red Hat
References
Advisory 2
Other 7
- https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/11000
- https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/11001
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/1417285c69344bbcc6420a021f67dee0c6fedb2d
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/32fc489632377d214db55bfa4e2c48486a7d7ce2
- https://github.com/axios/axios
- https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v0.33.0
- https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.18.0
More Axios vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-30422 Server-side request forgery in axios CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-32427 Server-side request forgery in axios CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-30578 Axios: Prototype pollution read-side gadgets in HTTP adapter allow credential injection and request hijacking CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-32428 Axios: Full Man-in-the-Middle via Prototype Pollution Gadget in `config.proxy` CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
- TI-2025-20009 Possible SSRF and Credential Leakage via Absolute URL in axios Requests CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
- TI-2026-32430 Axios: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Cookie Name Injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-67313 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-67313 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-67313 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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