Bug 2487949 (CVE-2026-44488)

Summary: CVE-2026-44488 axios: Axios: Denial of Service due to unenforced request and response size limits
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A flaw was found in Axios, a promise-based HTTP client. When using the fetch adapter, Axios did not properly enforce configured request and response size limits. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker, through a malicious or compromised server, or by supplying a large data URL, to send or receive oversized data bodies. This can lead to resource exhaustion in server-side applications, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Bug Depends On: 2488146, 2488147, 2488150, 2488151, 2488152, 2488153, 2488154, 2488155, 2488144, 2488145, 2488148, 2488149, 2488156    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-11 17:01:59 UTC 
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.