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

Vulnerability Description

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. When Axios starting in version 0.28.0 and prior to versions 0.30.2 and 1.12.0 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'`. Versions 0.30.2 and 1.12.0 contain a patch for the issue.

References

• https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-4hjh-wcwx-xvwj
• https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/7011
• https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/7034
• https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/945435fc51467303768202250debb8d4ae892593
• https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/a1b1d3f073a988601583a604f5f9f5d05a3d0b67
• https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/c30252f685e8f4326722de84923fcbc8cf557f06
• https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v0.30.2
• https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.12.0