Riskcovery

CVE-2026-40175

Axios has Unrestricted Cloud Metadata Exfiltration via Header Injection Chain

State
Published
Severity
4.8 Medium
Published
Apr 10, 2026
Updated
Sep 9, 2026
Reserved
Apr 9, 2026

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Description

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Versions prior to 1.15.0 and 0.3.1 are vulnerable to a specific gadget-style attack chain in which prototype pollution in a third-party dependency may be leveraged to inject unsanitized header values into outbound requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.0 and 0.3.1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.8 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:NGitHub_M
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-113 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting')
  • CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
  • CWE-915 Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

Affected Products

ProductVersions
axiosaxios
  • >= 1.0.0, < 1.15.0Affected
  • < 0.31.0Affected

References

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