axios 1.7.0 before 1.18.0 maxBodyLength Bypass via ReadableStream
Priority MEDIUM 61CWE-770Published · Updated
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
- Partial Red Hat: 1 fixed, 19 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-770.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00602 49th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Partial axios (axios): 1.18.0axios (npm): 1.18.0Red Hat: 2 advisoriesRed Hat: 1 fixed, 19 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- 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 | 1.7.0 to before 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | axios (npm) | 1.7.0 to before 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | Patch available | GHSA-jqh4-m9w3-8hp9 |
- axios Vendoraxios Affected 1.7.0 to before 1.18.0 Fixed in 1.18.0 Patch available CNA
- axios (npm) Vendor— Affected 1.7.0 to before 1.18.0 Fixed in 1.18.0 Patch available GHSA-jqh4-m9w3-8hp9
Remediation
- Fix · CNA axios (axios) Fixed in 1.18.0
- Fix · GHSA-jqh4-m9w3-8hp9 axios (npm) Fixed in 1.18.0 Advisory →
Red Hat 2 advisories
- RHSA-2026:50826 Released 2026-08-05 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
- Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1-13.1.1-0.5.2.hum1@aarch64, grafana13.1-13.1.1-0.5.2.hum1@src, grafana13.1-13.1.1-0.5.2.hum1@x86_64
- RHSA-2026:49714 Released 2026-08-03 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Hardened Images RPMs Security Update
- Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1-13.1.1-0.5.hum1@aarch64, grafana13.1-13.1.1-0.5.hum1@src, grafana13.1-13.1.1-0.5.hum1@x86_64
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-2026-47609 axios 0.28.0 before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via formDataToJSONPriority HIGH 67
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Migration Toolkit for Containers | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Network Observability Operator | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Pipelines | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| OpenShift Service Mesh 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Quay 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Self-service automation portal 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | Fixed | RHSA-2026:49714, RHSA-2026:50826 |
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Hardened Images
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-67317
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jqh4-m9w3-8hp9
- 2026-10-09 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Advisory 2
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-2026-67317 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-67317 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jqh4-m9w3-8hp9 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-67317 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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