CVE-2026-42041

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 JavaScripts 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.

Weakness

When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.

Affected Software

Potential Mitigations

Related Attack Patterns

• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/114.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/115.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/151.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/194.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/57.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/593.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/633.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/650.html
• https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/94.html

References

• https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-w9j2-pvgh-6h63
• https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-w9j2-pvgh-6h63