CVE-2026-42044 PUBLISHED

Axios: Invisible JSON Response Tampering via Prototype Pollution Gadget in `parseReviver`

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 23.04.2026 Published: 24.04.2026 Updated: 24.04.2026

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From 1.0.0 to before 1.15.2, he 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 surgical, invisible modification of all JSON API responses — including privilege escalation, balance manipulation, and authorization bypass. The default transformResponse function at lib/defaults/index.js:124 calls JSON.parse(data, this.parseReviver), where this is the merged config object. Because parseReviver is not present in Axios defaults, not validated by assertOptions, and not subject to any constraints, a polluted Object.prototype.parseReviver function is called for every key-value pair in every JSON response, allowing the attacker to selectively modify individual values while leaving the rest of the response intact. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor axios
Product axios
Versions
  • Version >= 1.0.0, < 1.15.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-915: Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes CWE
  • CWE-1321: Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution') CWE