CVE-2026-67314
MediumCVSS 6.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk30th percentile - higher than 30% of all known CVEs
Summary
Axios versions 1.15.2 through 1.17.9 contain prototype-pollution read-side gadgets in Basic auth subfield handling. If an application is already affected by prototype pollution and makes an axios request with an auth object missing username/password, axios reads inherited Object.prototype values and uses them to construct an Authorization header. Axios itself does not pollute prototypes.
Risk Assessment
An attacker controlling polluted prototype values can inject arbitrary Basic auth credentials or replace existing Authorization headers, potentially leading to unauthorized access or credential disclosure under specific conditions.
Recommendation
Update axios to version 1.18.0 or later and remediate any prototype pollution vulnerabilities in the application.
Other vulnerabilities in axios
See all- CVE-2026-101899Medium
Axios versions 1.15.0 through 1.20.0 incorrectly treat NO_PROXY CIDR entries as textual hostname suffixes instead of network ranges. A request to an address covered by a CIDR entry in NO_PROXY is not matched and is sent through the configured proxy. For plaintext HTTP the proxy can observe and modify URLs, headers, and bodies; for HTTPS it can observe connection metadata and CONNECT requests.
- GHSA-pmv8-rq9r-6j72Medium
Axios versions starting with 0.28.0 contain uncontrolled recursion in formDataToJSON, which is exposed as axios.formToJSON() and used internally when axios serialises FormData with Content-Type: application/json. If an application passes attacker-controlled FormData field names, it can lead to stack exhaustion.
- GHSA-7q8q-rj6j-mhjqMedium
Axios can consume inherited properties from nested request option objects when the JavaScript process already has a polluted Object.prototype. The top-level merged config is protected with a null prototype, but nested plain objects such as auth and paramsSerializer are cloned into objects with a prototype.
- CVE-2025-27152High
A vulnerability in the axios library allows sending requests to absolute URLs instead of relative ones, potentially leading to SSRF attacks and credential leakage. Even with baseURL set, axios ignores it and sends the request to the specified absolute URL.
- GHSA-mmx7-hfxf-jppxMedium
Axios is vulnerable to read-side prototype-pollution gadgets when Object.prototype has already been polluted by another vulnerability or dependency. The most broadly reachable issue is in the bodyless method aliases: axios.get(), axios.delete(), axios.head(), and axios.options().
- CVE-2023-45857Medium
An issue in Axios 1.5.1 inadvertently reveals the confidential XSRF-TOKEN stored in cookies by including it in the HTTP header X-XSRF-TOKEN for every request made to any host, allowing attackers to view sensitive information.
- GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3Medium
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.
- CVE-2025-62718Critical
A vulnerability in Axios prior to versions 1.15.0 and 0.31.0 incorrectly handles hostname normalization when checking NO_PROXY rules. Requests to loopback addresses like localhost. (with a trailing dot) or [::1] (IPv6 literal) skip NO_PROXY matching and go through the configured proxy.
- CVE-2026-101909High
Axios from 0.28.0 until 0.34.0 and 1.15.1 until 1.20.0 processes inherited serialization options and visitor properties supplied through prototype pollution. A separate same-process prototype-pollution flaw supplies inherited dots, indexes, metaTokens, maxDepth, visitor, or Blob values before object serialization. The inherited options alter toFormData field naming and data interpretation, maxDepth can force request failure, Blob changes value handling, and a polluted visitor can execute when an attacker already has the stronger ability to inject a function.
- CVE-2026-101908Medium
In Axios from version 1.7.0 to 1.20.0, the fetch adapter constructs a Request with sanitized resolvedOptions but then calls fetch with the original fetchOptions. A separate same-process prototype-pollution flaw populates Object.prototype.headers so fetchOptions.headers resolves through inheritance. The inherited fetchOptions.headers value overrides the sanitized Request headers through the second argument to fetch after Request construction. Attacker-controlled request headers can alter authorization, caching, metadata-service access, or application-specific behavior.
Original NVD description (English source)
axios versions >=1.15.2 and <1.18.0 contain prototype-pollution read-side gadgets in Basic auth subfield handling (lib/adapters/http.js and lib/helpers/resolveConfig.js). When an application is already affected by a separate prototype-pollution primitive and makes an axios request with an own auth object that omits the username and/or password properties, axios reads the inherited Object.prototype.username and Object.prototype.password values and uses them to construct an outbound 'Authorization: Basic ...' header. axios itself does not pollute prototypes. The practical impact is outbound request tampering: an attacker who controls the polluted prototype values can inject attacker-chosen Basic auth credentials or replace an existing Authorization header. Credential disclosure is only possible under additional application-specific conditions.
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