Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in axios - CVE-2026-44488

 

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in axios - CVE-2026-44488

Published: May 31, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU133099
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-44488
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to allocation of resources without limits or throttling in the fetch adapter when processing requests and responses with configured finite size limits. A remote attacker can supply an oversized response, a large data: URL, or an oversized request body to cause a denial of service.

The issue affects server-side usage where applications rely on maxContentLength or maxBodyLength being enforced by the fetch adapter.


Affected software

axios
PowerVC
IBM Fusion HCI
Jira Service Management Data Center
Crowd Data Center
IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services
Confluence Data Center
Bitbucket Data Center
Jira Software Data Center
Bamboo Data Center
DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data
IBM MQ Appliance
Data Cataloging
QRadar Threat Intelligence
QRadar Deployment Intelligence App
IBM Security SOAR
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
JBoss Data Grid

How to mitigate CVE-2026-44488

Install security update from vendor's website.

axios - update to 1.16.0
IBM Fusion HCI - update to 2.14.0
DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data - addressed in versions 5.3.1 patch 8, 5.4 patch 5
Jira Service Management Data Center - addressed in versions 10.3.23, 11.3.10
Crowd Data Center - update to 7.2.2
IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services - update to 9.0.0.0.0 IF14
Confluence Data Center - addressed in versions 9.2.22, 10.2.14
IBM MQ Appliance - addressed in versions 9.4.0.26, 9.4.5.3, 10.0.0.5
Bitbucket Data Center - addressed in versions 9.4.21, 10.2.4, 10.3.1
Jira Software Data Center - addressed in versions 10.3.23, 11.3.7
Bamboo Data Center - addressed in versions 10.2.20, 12.1.8
IBM Security SOAR - update to 51.0.10.2
Data Cataloging - update to 2.5.6
QRadar Threat Intelligence - update to 2.6.0
QRadar Deployment Intelligence App - update to 3.0.20
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - addressed in versions 4.14.69, 4.16.65, 4.20.30, 4.21.25, 4.22.6
JBoss Data Grid - update to 8.6.2

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