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.
CVE-2026-42044
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
This critical-severity CVE scores 9.1 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.6% (49th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory CVSS 6.5 is lower than this score; a lower GitHub score revises it only when its advisory is newer than the CVE record's last change, and this advisory (published 2026-05-05) is not newer than that change (2026-09-10), so it does not.
Also known asEUVD-2026-25609 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-3w6x-2g7m-8v23 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- CISA's Vulnrichment rates exploitation as PoC; EchelonGraph holds no exploit-code reference for it
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.1
- EG Score
- 9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 57EG Risk 57/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity91% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation40% × 40%EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines. - EPSS PROB
- 0.6%
- EPSS %ILE
- 49th
- KEV
- Not listed
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v3 · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
- EG Likelihood
- 0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
Published
April 24, 2026
Last Modified
September 10, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026Invisible JSON Response Tampering via Prototype Pollution Gadget in `parseReviver` · Advisory · axios/axios · GitHub
Affected: 1.15.0)
https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-3w6x-2g7m-8v23Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-42044(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:86618Red Hat Product SecurityCritical
Red Hat Security Advisory: New container image: rhceph-9.2
- RHSA-2026:50300Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Migration Toolkit for Applications
- RHSA-2026:42078Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
- RHSA-2026:41066Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Quay 3.16.5
- RHSA-2026:36882Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes v2.14.3 security update
- RHSA-2026:36107Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Virtualization v4.15 Images
- RHSA-2026:34608Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9.4 release and security update
- RHSA-2026:33574Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9.6 release.
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Patch Availability(30)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-axios | 0.21.1+dfsg-1 ... 1.8.4+dfsg-1 (40 versions) |
| — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-axios | 1.11.0+dfsg-1 ... 1.8.4+dfsg-1 (22 versions) |
| — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-axios | 1.11.0+dfsg-1 ... 1.8.4+dfsg-1 (12 versions) |
| — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| node-axios | 1.11.0+dfsg-1 ... 1.8.4+dfsg-1 (7 versions) |
| — |
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| axios | — |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(20)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2026:16532IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:16532 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:16534IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:16534 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:16535IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:16535 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:16542IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:16542 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:17657IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:17657 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:17699IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:17699 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:19109IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:19109 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:19375IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:19375 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:20338IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:20338 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:20454IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:20454 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:20889IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:20889 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:20938IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:20938 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:21017IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:21017 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:21338IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:21338 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:21772IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:21772 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:22465IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:22465 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:22629IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:22629 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:22840IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:22840 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:23361IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:23361 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2026:24471IMPORTANT2026-04-24
RHSA-2026:24471 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 24× in last 7d / 76× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 352 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 252 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 04:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 04:54 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-11-02 04:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3w6x-2g7m-8v23 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
- 2026-11-01 07:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-3w6x-2g7m-8v23 · GitHub severity MODERATE · GitHub CVSS 6.5
- 2026-11-01 07:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 02:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 02:52 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-31 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
- 2026-10-31 00:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 00:50 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
- 2026-10-29 22:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 22:48 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
- 2026-10-28 20:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 20:47 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-28 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-27 18:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 18:42 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-26 16:38 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-26 16:38 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-26 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
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- 2026-10-25 14:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 14:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-24 12:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 12:20 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-23 10:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 10:18 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-22 08:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 08:15 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-21 06:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 06:12 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-20 04:10 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 04:10 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-19 02:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 02:04 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-18 03:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 00:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-18 00:00 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-16 21:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 21:58 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
- 2026-10-15 18:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 18:20 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 47th percentile
- 2026-10-14 12:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 12:05 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-13 10:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-13 10:02 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-12 16:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 08:00 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 19:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 17:03 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 14:29 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
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- 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-06 15:17 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 57th percentile
- 2026-09-29 20:02 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
- 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.9% · 56th percentile
- 2026-09-23 17:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
- 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
- 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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- 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
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- 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
- 2026-09-11 09:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
- 2026-09-10 13:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-10 12:28 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-10 12:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-10 09:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
- 2026-09-09 12:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-09-09 12:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-09-08 22:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
- 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
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