Resource exhaustion in axios - CVE-2026-39865

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Resource exhaustion in axios - CVE-2026-39865

Published: April 8, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU125102
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.2 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-39865
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to the HTTP/2 session cleanup logic contains a state corruption bug. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

axios
PowerVC
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container
Fedora
pgadmin4
nextcloud

How to mitigate CVE-2026-39865

Install updates from vendor's website.

axios - update to 1.13.2
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.3.2
pgadmin4 - addressed in versions 9.14-2.fc42, 9.14-2.fc43, 9.14-2.fc44, 9.14-3.fc42, 9.14-3.fc43, 9.14-3.fc44
App Connect Enterprise Certified Container - addressed in versions 12.0.20, 12.21.0
nextcloud - addressed in versions 33.0.3-1.el10_2, 33.0.3-1.el10_3, 33.0.3-1.fc42, 33.0.3-1.fc43, 33.0.3-1.fc44

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