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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.9 Medium

CVE-2026-42039

Axios: unbounded recursion in toFormData causes DoS via deeply nested request data

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

axios axios

  • >= 1.0.0, < 1.15.1affected
  • < 0.31.1affected

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