CVE-2026-44488
HIGH 7.5Axios 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.
Severe if exploited (CVSS 7.5), but no known exploitation and low modeled probability. Patch on a normal cadence.
Exploitation likelihood
0.6%chance of exploitation in 30 days · 46th percentile
Impact if exploited
7.5CVSS 3.1 · HIGH
- ConfidentialityNone
- IntegrityNone
- AvailabilityHigh
What an attacker needs
- ✓Access: Reachable over the network — no local access needed
- ✓Privileges: No account or privileges required
- ✓User interaction: No user interaction needed
- ✓Complexity: No special conditions — reliably repeatable
✓ lowers the bar for an attacker · ⚠ raises it
Affected
Products Axios Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes 2.13 Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security For Kubernetes 4.10 Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 Red Hat Discovery 2 Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.16 Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.20 Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4.21
Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-770: Allocation without limits
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
Advisories
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:30651
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20889
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33574
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26234
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29197
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:29082
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27063
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27044