CVE-2026-44488: high-severity vulnerability in axios
Axios: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in axios
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.7%
Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Axios versions 1.7.0 through 1.15.x did not enforce configured request and response size limits when requests were sent with the fetch adapter. Applications that selected adapter: 'fetch', or ran in environments where axios resolved to the fetch adapter, could receive or send bodies larger than maxContentLength or maxBodyLength despite those limits being explicitly configured. This can cause resource exhaustion in server-side usage when a malicious or compromised server returns an oversized response, when an attacker can supply a large data: URL, or when an application forwards attacker-controlled request bodies through axios while relying on maxBodyLength as a boundary. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.32.0 and 1.16.0.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
axios · axiosRelated CVEs — axios
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-44492HIGHAxios: shouldBypassProxy does not recognize IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses, allowing NO_PROXY bypass (incomplete fix for CVE-2025-62718)EPSS 12.3%CVE-2019-10742—CVE-2019-10742EPSS 6.1%CVE-2026-44496HIGHAxios: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Cookie Name InjectionEPSS 5.4%CVE-2026-25639HIGHAxios affected by Denial of Service via __proto__ Key in mergeConfigEPSS 2.8%CVE-2026-40175MEDIUMAxios has Unrestricted Cloud Metadata Exfiltration via Header Injection ChainEPSS 2.0%CVE-2025-62718MEDIUMAxios has a NO_PROXY Hostname Normalization Bypass that Leads to SSRFEPSS 1.2%
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20889https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20938https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27044https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27063https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28964https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29082https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29197https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30650https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30651https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33155https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33160https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33163