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axios (source) ^0.26.0^0.30.0 age adoption passing confidence

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2021-3749

axios before v0.21.2 is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity.

CVE-2023-45857

An issue discovered in Axios 0.8.1 through 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.

CVE-2026-25639

Denial of Service via proto Key in mergeConfig

Summary

The mergeConfig function in axios crashes with a TypeError when processing configuration objects containing __proto__ as an own property. An attacker can trigger this by providing a malicious configuration object created via JSON.parse(), causing complete denial of service.

Details

The vulnerability exists in lib/core/mergeConfig.js at lines 98-101:

utils.forEach(Object.keys({ ...config1, ...config2 }), function computeConfigValue(prop) {
  const merge = mergeMap[prop] || mergeDeepProperties;
  const configValue = merge(config1[prop], config2[prop], prop);
  (utils.isUndefined(configValue) && merge !== mergeDirectKeys) || (config[prop] = configValue);
});

When prop is '__proto__':

  1. JSON.parse('{"__proto__": {...}}') creates an object with __proto__ as an own enumerable property
  2. Object.keys() includes '__proto__' in the iteration
  3. mergeMap['__proto__'] performs prototype chain lookup, returning Object.prototype (truthy object)
  4. The expression mergeMap[prop] || mergeDeepProperties evaluates to Object.prototype
  5. Object.prototype(...) throws TypeError: merge is not a function

The mergeConfig function is called by:

  • Axios._request() at lib/core/Axios.js:75
  • Axios.getUri() at lib/core/Axios.js:201
  • All HTTP method shortcuts (get, post, etc.) at lib/core/Axios.js:211,224

PoC

import axios from "axios";

const maliciousConfig = JSON.parse('{"__proto__": {"x": 1}}');
await axios.get("https://httpbin.org/get", maliciousConfig);

Reproduction steps:

  1. Clone axios repository or npm install axios
  2. Create file poc.mjs with the code above
  3. Run: node poc.mjs
  4. Observe the TypeError crash

Verified output (axios 1.13.4):

TypeError: merge is not a function
    at computeConfigValue (lib/core/mergeConfig.js:100:25)
    at Object.forEach (lib/utils.js:280:10)
    at mergeConfig (lib/core/mergeConfig.js:98:9)

Control tests performed:

Test Config Result
Normal config {"timeout": 5000} SUCCESS
Malicious config JSON.parse('{"__proto__": {"x": 1}}') CRASH
Nested object {"headers": {"X-Test": "value"}} SUCCESS

Attack scenario:
An application that accepts user input, parses it with JSON.parse(), and passes it to axios configuration will crash when receiving the payload {"__proto__": {"x": 1}}.

Impact

Denial of Service - Any application using axios that processes user-controlled JSON and passes it to axios configuration methods is vulnerable. The application will crash when processing the malicious payload.

Affected environments:

  • Node.js servers using axios for HTTP requests
  • Any backend that passes parsed JSON to axios configuration

This is NOT prototype pollution - the application crashes before any assignment occurs.


Release Notes

axios/axios (axios)

v0.30.3

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v0.30.2

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What's Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: axios/axios@v0.30.1...v0.30.2

v0.30.1

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Contributors to this release

Full Changelog: axios/axios@v0.30.0...v0.30.1

v0.30.0

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Contributors to this release

Full Changelog: axios/axios@v0.29.0...v0.30.0

v0.29.0

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v0.28.1

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Release notes:

Bug Fixes
  • fix(backport): custom params serializer support (#​6263)
  • fix(backport): uncaught ReferenceError req is not defined (#​6307)

v0.28.0

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Release notes:

Bug Fixes
Backports from v1.x:
  • Allow null indexes on formSerializer and paramsSerializer v0.x (#​4961)
  • Fixing content-type header repeated #​4745
  • Fixed timeout error message for HTTP 4738
  • Added axios.formToJSON method (#​4735)
  • URL params serializer (#​4734)
  • Fixed toFormData Blob issue on node>v17 #​4728
  • Adding types for progress event callbacks #​4675
  • Fixed max body length defaults #​4731
  • Added data URL support for node.js (#​4725)
  • Added isCancel type assert (#​4293)
  • Added the ability for the url-encoded-form serializer to respect the formSerializer config (#​4721)
  • Add string[] to AxiosRequestHeaders type (#​4322)
  • Allow type definition for axios instance methods (#​4224)
  • Fixed AxiosError stack capturing; (#​4718)
  • Fixed AxiosError status code type; (#​4717)
  • Adding Canceler parameters config and request (#​4711)
  • fix(types): allow to specify partial default headers for instance creation (#​4185)
  • Added blob to the list of protocols supported by the browser (#​4678)
  • Fixing Z_BUF_ERROR when no content (#​4701)
  • Fixed race condition on immediate requests cancellation (#​4261)
  • Added a clear() function to the request and response interceptors object so a user can ensure that all interceptors have been removed from an Axios instance #​4248
  • Added generic AxiosAbortSignal TS interface to avoid importing AbortController polyfill (#​4229)
  • Fix TS definition for AxiosRequestTransformer (#​4201)
  • Use type alias instead of interface for AxiosPromise (#​4505)
  • Include request and config when creating a CanceledError instance (#​4659)
  • Added generic TS types for the exposed toFormData helper (#​4668)
  • Optimized the code that checks cancellation (#​4587)
  • Replaced webpack with rollup (#​4596)
  • Added stack trace to AxiosError (#​4624)
  • Updated AxiosError.config to be optional in the type definition (#​4665)
  • Removed incorrect argument for NetworkError constructor (#​4656)

v0.27.2

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Fixes and Functionality:

  • Fixed FormData posting in browser environment by reverting #​3785 (#​4640)
  • Enhanced protocol parsing implementation (#​4639)
  • Fixed bundle size

v0.27.1

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Fixes and Functionality:
  • Removed import of url module in browser build due to huge size overhead and builds being broken (#​4594)
  • Bumped follow-redirects to ^1.14.9 (#​4615)

v0.27.0

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Breaking changes:
  • New toFormData helper function that allows the implementor to pass an object and allow axios to convert it to FormData (#​3757)
  • Removed functionality that removed the the Content-Type request header when passing FormData (#​3785)
  • (*) Refactored error handling implementing AxiosError as a constructor, this is a large change to error handling on the whole (#​3645)
  • Separated responsibility for FormData instantiation between transformRequest and toFormData (#​4470)
  • (*) Improved and fixed multiple issues with FormData support (#​4448)
QOL and DevX improvements:
  • Added a multipart/form-data testing playground allowing contributors to debug changes easily (#​4465)
Fixes and Functionality:
  • Refactored project file structure to avoid circular imports (#​4515) & (#​4516)
  • Bumped follow-redirects to ^1.14.9 (#​4562)
Internal and Tests:
  • Updated dev dependencies to latest version
Documentation:
  • Fixing incorrect link in changelog (#​4551)
Notes:
  • (*) Please read these pull requests before updating, these changes are very impactful and far reaching.

v0.26.1

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Fixes and Functionality:
  • Refactored project file structure to avoid circular imports (#​4220)

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