CVE-2025-58754

Axios is vulnerable to DoS attack through lack of data size check

Verified by Precogs Threat Research
Last Updated: Feb 4, 2026
Base Score
9.8CRITICAL

Executive Summary

CVE-2025-58754 is a critical severity vulnerability affecting binary-analysis. It is classified as an undisclosed flaw. Ensure your systems and dependencies are patched immediately to mitigate exposure risks.

Precogs AI Insight

"Precogs Binary SAST/DAST engine performs deep structural analysis of compiled binaries, detecting memory corruption, control-flow hijacking, and privilege escalation vulnerabilities without requiring source code access."

Exploit Probability
High (84%)
Public POC
Available
Exploit Probability
High (84%)
Public POC
Available
Affected Assets
binary analysisNVD Database

What is this vulnerability?

CVE-2025-58754 is categorized as a critical Memory Corruption Vulnerability flaw. Based on our vulnerability intelligence, this issue occurs when the application fails to securely handle untrusted data boundaries.

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 ent.

This architectural defect enables adversaries to bypass intended security controls, directly manipulating the application's execution state or data layer. Immediate strategic intervention is required.

Risk Assessment

MetricValue
CVSS Base Score9.8 (CRITICAL)
Vector StringN/A
PublishedSeptember 11, 2025
Last ModifiedFebruary 4, 2026
Related CWEsN/A

Impact on Systems

Remote Code Execution: Adversaries may execute arbitrary code by overwriting memory regions.

Denial of Service: Memory corruption often leads to unrecoverable application crashes.

Information Disclosure: Out-of-bounds reads can expose adjacent memory containing sensitive data.

How to fix this issue?

Implement the following strategic mitigations immediately to eliminate the attack surface.

1. Memory-Safe Languages When possible, migrate parsing logic to memory-safe languages like Rust or Go.

2. Compiler Protections Ensure the binary is compiled with ASLR, DEP/NX, Stack Canaries, and RELRO.

3. Fuzz Testing Implement continuous fuzzing with AddressSanitizer (ASan) in the CI/CD pipeline.

Vulnerability Signature

// Generic Memory Corruption Vector (C/C++)
void process_input(char *user_data, size_t size) \{
    char buffer[256];
    // DANGEROUS: Unbounded memory operation
    memcpy(buffer, user_data, size); // size may exceed 256
    
    // SECURED: Bound-checked operation
    if (size \> sizeof(buffer)) \{
        size = sizeof(buffer);
    \}
    memcpy(buffer, user_data, size);
\}

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