Intel

AIKIDO-2026-10820

axios is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published May 19, 2026

53

Medium Risk

This Affects:

JSaxios
1.0.0 - 1.15.2
Fixed in 1.16.0
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TL;DR

The fetch-backed request path resolves the same size guard options as the HTTP adapter but previously skipped enforcing them, so responses and bodies could grow without the limits callers configured. The implementation now rejects oversized declared lengths, oversized outbound bodies when length is known, and large data URLs before decoding materializes them. That restores the intended backpressure boundary for deployments that chose the fetch adapter for network I/O.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

axios is vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in versions 1.0.0 - 1.15.2.

How to fix this

Upgrade the axios library to the patch version.