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Fencer Vulns
high 8.7

CVE-2026-44494 json

Axios: Full Man-in-the-Middle via Prototype Pollution Gadget in `config.proxy`

published 2026-05-29 5 mo ago modified 2026-09-11 59 d ago also EUVD-2026-36257 , GHSA-35jp-ww65-95wh

cvss
8.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From 1.0.0 to before 1.16.0, the Axios library is vulnerable to a Prototype Pollution "Gadget" attack that allows any Object.prototype pollution in the application's dependency tree to be escalated into a full Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack — intercepting, reading, and modifying all HTTP traffic including authentication credentials. The HTTP adapter at lib/adapters/http.js:670 reads config.proxy via standard property access, which traverses the prototype chain. Because proxy is not present in Axios defaults, the merged config object has no own proxy property, making it trivially injectable via prototype pollution. Once injected, setProxy() routes all HTTP requests through the attacker's proxy server. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.16.0.

Patch / fix

  • npm axios 1.16.0
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:2.5.20260715-1.el8ap
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:2.5.20260715-1.el9ap
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.1 1784312384
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6 1783351002
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.8 1782157085
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.9 1783348181
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 1783350952
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 1782157514
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 1783451729
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 1784578812
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 1786908361
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9 1779371594
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.10 1779293013
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 1783919486
  • Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.13 1782426816
  • Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.14 1782356760
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10 1783448184
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 1782761244
  • Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 2 1782166952
  • Red Hat Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8 1783690532
  • Red Hat Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8.1 1785169013
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 1786611759, 1787250508, 1787250617, 1787251550, 1787347991
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 1786477760
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 1782911957
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 1782127091
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 1782243791, 1782244020
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 1782171032
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 1782313844, 1784148076
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 1781731914, 1784134078
  • node-axios Debian 14 1.16.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-44494

  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.6.6-1.el8ap
  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.6.6-1.el9ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.6.6-1.el8ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.6.6-1.el9ap
  • ansible-core ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1:2.16.19-1.el8ap
  • ansible-core ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1:2.16.19-1.el9ap
  • ansible-test ansible automation platform 2.5 1:2.16.19-1.el8ap
  • ansible-test ansible automation platform 2.5 1:2.16.19-1.el9ap

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:42078

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-2026-44494 updated cvss 8.7

axios: Axios: Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack via Prototype Pollution

  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel9 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 automation-controller, automation-platform-ui, ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform/automation-dashboard-rhel9 Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 axios
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop - Tech Preview rhdesktop/rh-podman-desktop-ext-openshift-local-rhel10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9 Red Hat Fuse 7 axios
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift5/ose-agent-installer-ui-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer rhtpa/rhtpa-trustification-service-rhel9 Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal, ansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6 multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 1783351002
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:41055
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.8 multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 1782157085
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:30650
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.9 multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 1783348181
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36883
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.10 multicluster-engine/console-mce-rhel9 1784312384
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:46885
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 rhacm2/console-rhel9 1783350952
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:41064
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  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 rhacm2/console-rhel9 1782157514
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:30651
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 rhacm2/console-rhel9 1783451729
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36882
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 rhacm2/console-rhel9 1784578812
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:46903
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 rhacm2/console-rhel9 1786908361
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:57191
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8 1779371594
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:20938
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes for IBM Power, little endian 4.10 advanced-cluster-security 1779293013
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:20889
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:66545
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:66488
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 automation-gateway-server 2.5.20260715-1.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 automation-gateway-server 2.5.20260715-1.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:42078
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 ansible-automation-platform-27/gateway-rhel9 1783919486
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:42142
  • Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.13 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin-rhel9 1782426816
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36108
  • Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.14 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin-rhel9 1782356760
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:33005
  • Red Hat Data Grid 8.6.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:41951
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 1782761244
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:33574
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 1783448184
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36754
  • Red Hat Discovery 2 discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9 1782166952
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:29197
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8 rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8 1783690532
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:41928
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8.1 mta/mta-ui-rhel9 1785169013
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:50300
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9 1787347991, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-automl-rhel9 1787250508, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-gen-ai-rhel9 1786611759, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-autorag-rhel9 1787251550, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-eval-hub-rhel9 1791861214, rhoai/odh-mod-arch-model-registry-rhel9 1787250617
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:60520
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 openshift4/ose-console 1786477760
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:54188
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 openshift4/ose-console 1782911957
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:36611
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 openshift4/ose-console 1782127091
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:28964
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 openshift4/ose-console-rhel9 1782244020, openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9 1782243791
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:29082
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9 1782171032
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:29864

18 more fixed, 51 more not affected in the full advisory

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
total
Assessed
4 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-35jp-ww65-95wh referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA ADP 3.1 8.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 8.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm axios
>=1.0.0, <1.16.0
1.16.0

Affected products

  • axios axios
  • Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.6
  • Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Data Grid 8.6.2
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.1
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.8
  • Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.13
  • Red Hat Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.14
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 2
  • Red Hat Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.29
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.1
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.3
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.12
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.15
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat Quay 3.9
  • Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.19
  • Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4
  • Red Hat Gatekeeper 3
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-441 Unintended Proxy or Intermediary
  • CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes
  • CWE-915 Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

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