CVE-2026-40175 (GCVE-0-2026-40175)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-10 19:23
Modified
2026-05-20 00:26
Severity ?
4.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • 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)
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
axios axios Version: >= 1.0.0, < 1.15.0
Version: < 0.31.0
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