QSearchQSearch

CVE-2026-44494

8.7 HIGH

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js

Published: 2026-06-11 · Last updated: 2026-06-11

Severity and scoring

CVSS
8.7 HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
CWE-1321, CWE-441

Description

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From 1.0.0 to before 1.16.0, the Axios library is vulnerable to a Prototype Pollution "Gadget" attack that allows any Object.prototype pollution in the application's dependency tree to be escalated into a full Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack — intercepting, reading, and modifying all HTTP traffic including authentication credentials. The HTTP adapter at lib/adapters/http.js:670 reads config.proxy via standard property access, which traverses the prototype chain. Because proxy is not present in Axios defaults, the merged config object has no own proxy property, making it trivially injectable via prototype pollution. Once injected, setProxy() routes all HTTP requests through the attacker's proxy server. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.0.

Source: NVD

References

Related CVEs

Same CWE

  • CVE-2026-44495 — Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js (7.0 HIGH)
  • CVE-2026-44490 — Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js (4.8 MEDIUM)
  • CVE-2026-44489 — Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js (3.7 LOW)
  • CVE-2026-46625 — JavaScript Cookie is a JavaScript API for handling cookies, client-side (7.5 HIGH)
  • CVE-2026-49821 — Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes (7.7 HIGH)