CVE-2026-42039: Axios

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Axios Axios: before 0.31.1 (fixed in 0.31.1); from 1.0.0, before 1.15.1 (fixed in 1.15.1)

Published 2026-04-24. Last modified 2026-09-10.