What is CVE-2026-42036?

CVE-2026-42036 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Axios, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-04-24.

How severe is CVE-2026-42036?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Axios

CVE-2026-42036

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.1 and 0.31.1, when responseType: 'stream' is used, Axios returns the response stream without enforcing maxContentLength. This bypasses configured response-size…

EPSS: 0.000 (6.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Axios — versions >= 1.0.0, < 1.15.1, < 0.31.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-vf2m-468p-8v99 (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-42036?: CVE-2026-42036 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Axios, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-04-24.
How severe is CVE-2026-42036?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.