Medium 6.9Published Apr 24, 2026

CVE-2026-42039Axios: unbounded recursion in toFormData causes DoS via deeply nested request data

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 8:23 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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 (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-674, CWE-770
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Sep 10, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

axios axios axios:axios (from the name)	from 1.0.0, < 1.15.1; before 0.31.1	CNA record
Red Hat HawtIO HawtIO 4.4.0 redhat:apache_camel_hawtio	4.4	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Data Grid 8.6.1 redhat:jboss_data_grid	8	CISA ADP
Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.1 redhat:multicluster_engine	from 1780917531 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Network Observability (NETOBSERV) 1.11.0 redhat:network_observ_optr	from 1778510461 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 redhat:acm	from 1783451729 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9 redhat:advanced_cluster_security	from 1779371594 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8 redhat:rhdh	from 1779841586 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 2 redhat:discovery	from 1778156756 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8 redhat:rhmt	from 1780590717 not affected	CISA ADP
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References

References

https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-62hf-57xw-28j9	x-refsource-confirm, exploit, vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14937
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16476
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16532
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16534
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16535
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16542
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16874
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17468
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17474
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