Axios is a promise-based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From 1.7.0 until 1.20.0, the fetch adapter constructs a Request with sanitized resolvedOptions but then calls fetch with the original fetchOptions. A separate same-process prototype-pollution flaw populates Object.prototype.headers so fetchOptions.headers resolves through inheritance. The inherited fetchOptions.headers value overrides the sanitized Request headers through the second argument to fetch after Request construction. Attacker-controlled request headers can alter authorization, caching, metadata-service access, or application-specific behavior. This issue is fixed in version 1.20.0.
Weakness
The product receives input from an upstream component that specifies attributes that are to be initialized or updated in an object, but it does not properly control modifications of attributes of the object prototype.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Hardened Images | RedHat | grafana13-1-main-13.1.6-0.6.hum1 | * |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | RedHat | grafana12-4-main-12.4.12-0.3.hum1 | * |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | RedHat | grafana13-2-main-13.2.1-0.9.hum1 | * |
| Node-axios | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/180.html
- https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/77.html
References
- https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/d19040bda7a8be2f82c3c6e1a5bc03917daee39a
- https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/11141
- https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.20.0
- https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-vh66-26gq-q6x8
- https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-vh66-26gq-q6x8