axios before 1.18.0 Prototype Pollution via auth subfields
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · Low
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 22 fixed, 5 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| axios | axios | 1.15.2 to before 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | axios (npm) | 1.15.2 to before 1.18.0 | 1.18.0 | Patch available | GHSA-xj6q-8x83-jv6g |
- axios Vendoraxios Affected 1.15.2 to before 1.18.0 Fixed in 1.18.0 Patch available CNA
- axios (npm) Vendor— Affected 1.15.2 to before 1.18.0 Fixed in 1.18.0 Patch available GHSA-xj6q-8x83-jv6g
Remediation
- Fix · CNA axios (axios) Fixed in 1.18.0
- Fix · GHSA-xj6q-8x83-jv6g axios (npm) Fixed in 1.18.0 Advisory →
Red Hat 28 advisories
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- RHSA-2026:90321 Released 2026-10-26 · Red Hat rating CriticalRed Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31.0 Release.
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Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
axios 1.18.0
10 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 3 HIGH, 5 MEDIUM, 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-47617 axios 0.31.1 before 0.33.0 and 1.15.1 before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via maxDepth bypassPriority HIGH 70
- TI-2026-47614 axios 1.13.0 before 1.18.0 maxBodyLength Bypass via HTTP/2Priority HIGH 67
- TI-2026-47609 axios 0.28.0 before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via formDataToJSONPriority HIGH 67
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
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|---|---|---|
| Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenShift Pipelines | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:60390 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:60388 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.11 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:67714 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes for IBM Power, little endian 4.10 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:67711 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:65118 |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | Fixed | RHSA-2026:48758, RHSA-2026:49714, RHSA-2026:50826 |
| Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:68681 |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:84734, RHSA-2026:92510 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.30 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:68754 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:90321 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.3 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:59566 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.4 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:59583 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.10 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:66084 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.12 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:66523 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.14 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:70267 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.15 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:63307 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.16 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:69255 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.17 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:74511 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.18 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:81110 |
| Red Hat Quay 3.9 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:65514 |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.18 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:63373, RHSA-2026:68765 |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.19 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:63355, RHSA-2026:68748, RHSA-2026:68755 |
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- Network Observability Operator
- Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.11
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes for IBM Power, little endian 4.10
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8
- Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.30
- Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31
- Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.4
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4
- Red Hat Quay 3.10
- Red Hat Quay 3.12
- Red Hat Quay 3.14
- Red Hat Quay 3.15
- Red Hat Quay 3.16
- Red Hat Quay 3.17
- Red Hat Quay 3.18
- Red Hat Quay 3.9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-67314
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-xj6q-8x83-jv6g
- 2026-10-13 Fix available: RHSA-2026:81110 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-13 Fix available: Red Hat Quay 3.18 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-20 Fix available: RHSA-2026:84734 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-20 Fix available: Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-29 Fix available: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: RHSA-2026:90321 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: RHSA-2026:92510 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.10 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-31 Fix available: RHSA-2026:67711 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-31 Fix available: RHSA-2026:67714 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-31 Fix available: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.11 · Red Hat
- 2026-11-05 Fix available: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes for IBM Power, little endian 4.10 · Red Hat
References
More Axios vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-30422 Server-side request forgery in axios CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-32427 Server-side request forgery in axios CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-30578 Axios: Prototype pollution read-side gadgets in HTTP adapter allow credential injection and request hijacking CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2026-32428 Axios: Full Man-in-the-Middle via Prototype Pollution Gadget in `config.proxy` CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7
- TI-2025-20009 Possible SSRF and Credential Leakage via Absolute URL in axios Requests CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.7
- TI-2026-32430 Axios: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Cookie Name Injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-67314 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-67314 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-xj6q-8x83-jv6g · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-67314 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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