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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.9

CVE-2026-101908 json

Axios: Prototype pollution gadget in fetch adapter can alter outbound requests

published 2026-09-28 41 d ago modified 2026-09-30 39 d ago also EUVD-2026-88387 , GHSA-vh66-26gq-q6x8

cvss
6.9
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 40%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Axios is a promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From 1.7.0 until 1.20.0, the fetch adapter constructs a Request with sanitized resolvedOptions but then calls fetch with the original fetchOptions. A separate same-process prototype-pollution flaw populates Object.prototype.headers so fetchOptions.headers resolves through inheritance. The inherited fetchOptions.headers value overrides the sanitized Request headers through the second argument to fetch after Request construction. Attacker-controlled request headers can alter authorization, caching, metadata-service access, or application-specific behavior. This issue is fixed in version 1.20.0.

Patch / fix

  • npm axios 1.20.0
  • axios axios 1.20.0
  • node-axios Debian 14 1.20.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-101908

  • grafana12.4 hummingbird 1 12.4.12-0.3.hum1
  • grafana13.2 hummingbird 1 13.2.1-0.9.hum1
  • grafana13.1 hummingbird 1 13.1.6-0.6.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:74871RHSA-2026:74872RHSA-2026:74869

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-101908 updated cvss 6.5

axios: Axios: Outbound HTTP request manipulation via fetch adapter prototype pollution

  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1 13.1.6-0.6.hum1, grafana13.2 13.2.1-0.9.hum1, grafana12.4 12.4.12-0.3.hum1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:74871
  • Red Hat Hardened Images jaeger 2.20.0-0.11.hum1
    not affected: component not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
41 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 40% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-vh66-26gq-q6x8 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm axios
>=1.7.0, <1.20.0
1.20.0

Affected products

  • axios axios

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes

References

Sources

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CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.