CVE-2026-42039
CVE-2026-42039 · Axios: unbounded recursion in toFormData causes DoS via deeply nested request data
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Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.1 and 0.31.1, toFormData recursively walks nested objects with no depth limit, so a deeply nested value passed as request data crashes the Node.js process with a RangeError. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.1 and 0.31.1.
CVSS 6.9 · Medium · EPSS 1.0% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Affected products and versions
axios
- Versions
- >= 1.0.0, < 1.15.1: Affected
- < 0.31.1: Affected
No fix published
node-axios Debian:12
- Versions
- 1.11.0+dfsg-1
- 1.12.1+dfsg-1
- 1.13.1+dfsg-1
- 1.13.2+dfsg-1
- 1.14.0+dfsg-1
- 1.15.0-1
- 1.15.2-1
- 1.16.0-1
- 1.18.0-1
- 1.19.0-1
- 1.2.1+dfsg-1
- 1.2.1+dfsg-1+deb12u1
- 1.20.0-1
- 1.5.1+dfsg-1
- 1.6.2+dfsg-1
- 1.6.8+dfsg-1
- 1.6.8+dfsg-2
- 1.7.3+dfsg-1
- 1.7.4+dfsg-1
- 1.7.7+dfsg-1
- 1.7.9+dfsg-1
- 1.8.4+dfsg-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
node-axios Debian:13
- Versions
- 1.11.0+dfsg-1
- 1.12.1+dfsg-1
- 1.13.1+dfsg-1
- 1.13.2+dfsg-1
- 1.14.0+dfsg-1
- 1.15.0-1
- 1.15.2-1
- 1.16.0-1
- 1.18.0-1
- 1.19.0-1
- 1.20.0-1
- 1.8.4+dfsg-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
node-axios Debian:14
- Versions
- 1.11.0+dfsg-1
- 1.12.1+dfsg-1
- 1.13.1+dfsg-1
- 1.13.2+dfsg-1
- 1.14.0+dfsg-1
- 1.15.0-1
- 1.8.4+dfsg-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: < 1.15.2-1
Update to 1.15.2-1
axios npm
- Affected ranges
- SEMVER: ≥ 1.0.0, < 1.15.1
Update to 1.15.1
axios npm
- Affected ranges
- SEMVER: < 0.31.1
Update to 0.31.1
node-axios Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS
- Versions
- 0.19.0+dfsg-2
- 0.19.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
node-axios Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS
- Versions
- 0.21.1+dfsg-1
- 0.23.0+dfsg-2
- 0.24.0+dfsg-1
- 0.25.0+dfsg-2
- 0.26.0+dfsg-1
- 0.26.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
node-axios Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.2.1+dfsg-1
- 1.5.1+dfsg-1
- 1.6.2+dfsg-1
- 1.6.8+dfsg-2
- 1.6.8+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
node-axios Ubuntu:25.10
- Versions
- 1.7.9+dfsg-1
- 1.8.4+dfsg-1
- 1.11.0+dfsg-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
node-axios Ubuntu:26.10
- Versions
- 1.13.2+dfsg-1build1
- 1.16.0-1
- 1.18.0-1
- 1.19.0-1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
node-axios Ubuntu:Pro:26.04:LTS
- Versions
- 1.11.0+dfsg-1
- 1.12.1+dfsg-1
- 1.13.2+dfsg-1build1
- 1.13.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
- Affected ranges
- ECOSYSTEM: (−∞, +∞)
No fix published
Original sources
- https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-62hf-57xw-28j9
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-42039
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461630
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-42039.json
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25089
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16874
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24473
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36882
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24539
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25273
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20938
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20889
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22619
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21338
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33574
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14937
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25041
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50300
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24977
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17468
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17474
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48670
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21772
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42039