# CVE-2026-44488: Axios: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in axios

- Also known as: GHSA-777C-7FJR-54VF
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.16.0
- Published: 2026-06-11 · Updated: 2026-09-11

## Affected

- axios: from 1.7.0, fixed in 1.16.0
- axios (npm): from 1.7.0, fixed in 1.16.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on axios, upgrade to a fixed version (1.16.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-777c-7fjr-54vf

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