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GHSA-3mcp-22mf-vrw3

Duplicate Advisory: Axios form serializer maxDepth bypass via {} metatoken

High Withdrawn Sep 8, 2026 npm
Severity
0.0 / 10
High · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
—
No score published
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion
Fix
None yet
No fixed version published

Description

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-hcpx-6fm6-wx23. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

axios before 0.33.0 contains an incomplete depth-limit bypass in toFormData.js when serializing objects with top-level keys ending in '{}'. Attackers who control object keys and nested values passed to axios form or parameter serialization can trigger a RangeError from JSON.stringify, causing denial of service in the affected request path.

Affected versions

npm

PackageVulnerableFixed in
axios
>= 1.15.1
No fix yet

How to fix

No fixed version has been published yet. Until one is, remove or replace the package, or turn off or isolate the affected feature. This page updates when a fix ships.

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
None
Integrity (vulnerable system)
None
Availability (vulnerable system)
Low
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
None
Integrity (subsequent systems)
None
Availability (subsequent systems)
None
Exploit maturity
Not defined
Scope
X

CVSS 3.1 7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Weakness

CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

How to prevent it
  • Implementation: Ensure that an end condition will be reached under all logic conditions. The end condition may include checking against the depth of recursion and exiting with an error if the recursion goes too deep. The complexity of the end condition contributes to the effectiveness of this action.
  • Implementation: Increase the stack size.

References

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Withdrawn
  3. Last updated by the source
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
GHSA-44g4-m2mj-wpvx
Axios: CIDR-form NO_PROXY entries are ignored, causing proxy exclusion bypass for internal IP ranges
Medium Also affects axios
GHSA-x97p-jq2g-jp4f
Axios: Prototype Pollution Gadget in axios toFormData Options
High Also affects axios
GHSA-vh66-26gq-q6x8
Axios: Prototype pollution gadget in fetch adapter can alter outbound requests
Medium Also affects axios
GHSA-r4gj-5m52-g5wh
Axios: maxRedirects: 0 is not enforced by the fetch adapter, allowing redirect-based SSRF
High Also affects axios
GHSA-mghh-pgcx-3jjj
Axios: ReDoS (O(N²)) in shouldBypassProxy host normalization, reachable via untrusted redirect Location
High Also affects axios
GHSA-m8m8-qj5v-23w3
Axios: Node HTTP adapter prototype-pollution gadget allows request socket hijack via inherited createConnection
High Also affects axios
GHSA-j8rh-479h-cp32
Axios: Header Injection via Inherited headers After Minimal Interceptor
Medium Also affects axios
GHSA-c29m-xwm3-cm6r
Axios: ReDoS in fromDataURI data: URL parser freezes the Node event loop (DoS)
High Also affects axios
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