CVE-2026-44494

Fixed in a distro release EPSS 1%CVSS 8.7

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.

Published 2026-06-11 · CVE record · OSV

Products: axios, Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.6, Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.1, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9, 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 Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 4.10, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7, Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.13, Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.14, Red Hat Developer Hub 1.10, Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9, Red Hat Discovery 2, Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.8, Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8.1, Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22, Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.29, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.1, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.3, Red Hat Quay 3.10, Red Hat Quay 3.12, Red Hat Quay 3.15, Red Hat Quay 3.16, Red Hat Quay 3.9, Red Hat Satellite 6.19, Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3, Red Hat Cryostat 4, Red Hat Gatekeeper 3, Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8, Red Hat Network Observability Operator, Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3, Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4, Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4, Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3, Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop - Tech Preview, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3, Red Hat Fuse 7, Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI), Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4, Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer, Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2

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