# Axios: Denial of Service via Unhandled 'error' Event in HTTP/2 ClientHttp2Session Initialization

Advisory record · `GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8` · `CVE-2026-101901`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.2 High
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Published:** 30 Sept 2026
- **Updated:** 30 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 30 Sept 2026, 15:01 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `axios` (npm): affected `>=1.13.0, <1.20.0`; fixed in `1.20.0`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.2 High, CVSS 4.0: `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`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0054, the 45th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 16 Sept 2026, 08:56 UTC: [Published by the maintainers as a GitHub repository advisory](https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8)
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:34 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8)
- [OSV: GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8)
- <https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8>
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-101901>
- <https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/11141>
- <https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/d19040bda7a8be2f82c3c6e1a5bc03917daee39a>
- <https://github.com/axios/axios>
- <https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.20.0>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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