4.8
/ 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Description
Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.1 and 0.31.1, the Axios library is vulnerable to a Prototype Pollution "Gadget" attack that allows any Object.prototype pollution to silently suppress all HTTP error responses (401, 403, 500, etc.), causing them to be treated as successful responses. This completely bypasses application-level authentication and error handling. The root cause is that validateStatus is the only config property using the mergeDirectKeys merge strategy, which uses JavaScript's in operator — an operator that inherently traverses the prototype chain. When Object.prototype.validateStatus is polluted with () => true, all HTTP status codes are accepted as success. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.1 and 0.31.1.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-42041
Source
GitHub_M
Published
Apr 24, 2026 at 17:55
Affected Product
Vendor
axios
Product
axios
Version
>= 1.0.0, < 1.15.1
Affected Versions
axios axios >= 1.0.0, < 1.15.1
axios axios < 0.31.1
axios axios < 0.31.1