Medium 4.8Published Apr 10, 2026

CVE-2026-40175Axios has Unrestricted Cloud Metadata Exfiltration via Header Injection Chain

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 4:10 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 4.8 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-113, CWE-444, CWE-918, CWE-915
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Sep 9, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

axios axios axios:axios (from the name)	from 1.0.0, < 1.15.0; before 0.31.0	CNA record
Siemens gWAP siemens:gwap (from the name)	before V3.1.1	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 redhat:ansible_automation_platform	from 0:2.6.9-1.el9ap not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 redhat:amq_streams	3.2	CISA ADP
Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.1 redhat:multicluster_engine	from 1777128790 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Network Observability (NETOBSERV) 1.11.0 redhat:network_observ_optr	from 1778508956 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 redhat:acm	from 1783451729 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9 redhat:advanced_cluster_security	from 1779371594 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12 redhat:container_native_virtualization	from 1786029653 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8 redhat:rhdh	from 1776784286 not affected	CISA ADP
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References

References

https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-fvcv-3m26-pcqx	x-refsource-confirm, exploit, mitigation, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10660	x-refsource-misc, issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10688	x-refsource-misc, patch
https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/03cdfc99e8db32a390e12128208b6778492cee9c	x-refsource-misc, patch
https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/363185461b90b1b78845dc8a99a1f103d9b122a1	x-refsource-misc, patch
https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v0.31.0	x-refsource-misc, release-notes
https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.15.0	x-refsource-misc, product, release-notes
https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10660#issuecomment-4224168081	issue-tracking, patch
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10104
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10153
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