Medium severity · published Apr 10, 2026
CVE-2026-40175
Axios has Unrestricted Cloud Metadata Exfiltration via Header Injection Chain
4.8
CVSS
1.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Versions prior to 1.15.0 and 0.3.1 are vulnerable to a specific gadget-style attack chain in which prototype pollution in a third-party dependency may be leveraged to inject unsanitized header values into outbound requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.0 and 0.3.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.9% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AX
axios · axios
>= 1.0.0, < 1.15.0; < 0.31.0 · source: vendor, NVD
MT
Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
NO
Network Observability (NETOBSERV) 1.11.0 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
OP
OpenShift Pipelines · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop - Tech Preview · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.12 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.13 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Container Native Virtualization 4.14 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40175
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40175
Patch
https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/03cdfc99e8db32a390e12128208b6778492cee9c
Patch
https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/363185461b90b1b78845dc8a99a1f103d9b122a1
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10660
Patch
https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10688
Release Notes
https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v0.31.0
Product
https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.15.0
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