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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2019-10742 json

Denial of Service in axios

published 2019-05-07 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-42xw-2xvc-qx8m , EUVD-2019-0448

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.1%
EPSS 6.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Axios up to and including 0.18.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by continuing to accepting content after maxContentLength is exceeded.

Patch / fix

  • npm axios 0.18.1
  • node-axios Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.17.1+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-10742

Exploit prediction

6.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • app.snyk.io https://app.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-AXIOS-174505 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/1098 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm axios
<0.18.1
0.18.1

Affected products

  • axios axios

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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