CVE-2026-42033

Axios: Prototype Pollution Gadgets - Response Tampering, Data Exfiltration, and Request Hijacking

State
Published
Severity
7.4 High
Published
Apr 24, 2026
Updated
Sep 10, 2026
Reserved
Apr 23, 2026

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Description

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.1 and 0.31.1, when Object.prototype has been polluted by any co-dependency with keys that axios reads without a hasOwnProperty guard, an attacker can (a) silently intercept and modify every JSON response before the application sees it, or (b) fully hijack the underlying HTTP transport, gaining access to request credentials, headers, and body. The precondition is prototype pollution from a separate source in the same process. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.1 and 0.31.1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M
3.17.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nredhat-SADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
  • CWE-915 Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

Affected Products

ProductVersions
axiosaxios
  • >= 1.0.0, < 1.15.1Affected
  • < 0.31.1Affected

References

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