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CVE-2026-42044

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

Impact

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npmaxios>= 1.0.0, < 1.15.21.15.2

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
AxiosAxios
from 1.0.0 before 1.15.1

Weakness classification

CWE-915CWE-1321

References