GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3 — Axios: Excessive recursion in formDataToJSON can cause denial of service

Affected: npm: axios

## Summary Axios versions `0.28.0` and later contain uncontrolled recursion in `formDataToJSON`, the helper behind the public `axios.formToJSON()` / named `formToJSON` API and the default request transform used when FormData is sent with an `application/json` content type.

Applications are affected when they pass attacker-controlled `FormData` field names into this functionality. A field name with thousands of nested bracket segments can exhaust the JavaScript call stack and throw `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded`, causing request failure and, in applications that do not handle the exception or rejected promise, possible process termination.

## Impact The impact is denial of service against applications that process untrusted `FormData` field names through axios' FormData-to-JSON conversion.

The vulnerable path is not reached by merely installing axios, by normal multipart `FormData` pass-through, or by ordinary axios requests that do not request JSON serialisation of `FormData`. In the default axios request, the error is produced before network I/O and returned as a rejected Promise. Direct use of `formToJSON()` throws synchronously.

Server-side applications are the primary risk when remote users can submit arbitrary form field names, and the application converts those fields with `formToJSON()` or sends them through axios as JSON.

## Affected Functionality Affected APIs and paths: - `axios.formToJSON(formData)` - `import { formToJSON } from "axios"` - `li…

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GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3 — Axios: Excessive recursion in formDataToJSON can cause denial of service