CVE-2025-58754 Axios is vulnerable to DoS attack through lack of data size check
An attacker can cause a denial of service by sending a large data URI, leading to unbounded memory allocation in the Axios HTTP client.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-58754?
CVE-2025-58754 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in axios, published on 12 Sep 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-58754?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including axios. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
axios npm | From 0.28.0 | 0.30.2 |
axios npm | From 0.28.0 | 0.30.2 |
axios npm | From 1.0.0 | 1.12.0 |
axios npm | From 1.0.0 | 1.12.0 |
Products include Axios Axios.
How do I fix CVE-2025-58754?
Upgrade axios to a fixed version for your release line: 0.30.2 or 1.12.0.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-58754 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-58754 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in axios
- CVE-2026-44494 Axios: Full Man-in-the-Middle via Prototype Pollution Gadget in `config.proxy`
- CVE-2026-44492 axios's shouldBypassProxy does not recognize IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, allowing NO_PROXY bypass (incomplete fix for CVE-2025-62718)
- CVE-2026-67320 axios before 0.33.0 Prototype Pollution via Node HTTP adapter
- CVE-2026-44487 Axios: Proxy-Authorization Credential Leak to Origin Server Across HTTP-to-HTTPS Redirect in Axios Node.js HTTP Adapter
- CVE-2025-27152 Possible SSRF and Credential Leakage via Absolute URL in axios Requests
Sources
Also known as CLEANSTART-2026-NK05110, CLSA-2026-1783904635, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-58754, ECHO-807d-c2a5-2a03, GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj, MINI-3gj5-qqmv-w6r6 and 9 more.