Bug 2461624 (CVE-2026-42044)

Summary:	CVE-2026-42044 axios: Axios: Invisible JSON Response Tampering via Prototype Pollution Gadget
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Axios, a widely used HTTP client. This vulnerability, known as a Prototype Pollution "Gadget" attack, allows a remote attacker to subtly alter JSON API responses. By manipulating a specific function, an attacker can selectively modify data within these responses. This could lead to significant security breaches, including unauthorized privilege escalation, fraudulent balance manipulation, or bypassing critical authorization checks.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2468000, 2468002, 2468003, 2468005, 2468006, 2468007, 2468009, 2467998, 2467999, 2468001, 2468004, 2468008, 2468010
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-24 19:01:36 UTC

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.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2026-07-02 00:05:03 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9.4

Via RHSA-2026:34608 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34608

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2026-07-20 15:58:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9
  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2026:42078 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42078