# CVE-2026-40175: Axios has Unrestricted Cloud Metadata Exfiltration via Header Injection Chain

> CVE-2026-40175: Axios has Unrestricted Cloud Metadata Exfiltration via Header Injection Chain. CVSS 4.8 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-40175
Last updated: 2026-09-09T13:19:49Z

- Published: 2026-04-10 19:23 UTC · Updated: 2026-09-09 13:19 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 4.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 1.9%, 80th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-113, CWE-444, CWE-918

## 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.

## Affected vendors and products

- axios: axios
- Red Hat: Cryostat 4
- Red Hat: Gatekeeper 3
- Red Hat: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
- Red Hat: Migration Toolkit for Applications 8
- Red Hat: OpenShift Pipelines
- Red Hat: OpenShift Service Mesh 3
- Red Hat: Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2
- Red Hat: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Red Hat: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9
- Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4
- Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3
- Red Hat: Red Hat Build of Kueue
- Red Hat: Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop - Tech Preview
- Red Hat: Red Hat Data Grid 8
- Red Hat: Red Hat Developer Hub
- Red Hat: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3
- Red Hat: Red Hat Fuse 7
- Red Hat: Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
- Red Hat: Red Hat Process Automation 7
- Red Hat: Red Hat Quay 3
- Red Hat: Self-service automation portal 2
- Red Hat: streams for Apache Kafka 2
- Red Hat: Streams for Apache Kafka 3.2.0
- Siemens: gWAP

## Tracked companies

- [Confluence](https://rewindex.com/company/confluence.md)
- [Jira](https://rewindex.com/company/jira.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40175)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40175)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/03cdfc99e8db32a390e12128208b6778492cee9c](https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/03cdfc99e8db32a390e12128208b6778492cee9c)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/363185461b90b1b78845dc8a99a1f103d9b122a1](https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/363185461b90b1b78845dc8a99a1f103d9b122a1)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10660](https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10660)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10688](https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10688)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v0.31.0](https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v0.31.0)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.15.0](https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.15.0)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-fvcv-3m26-pcqx](https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-fvcv-3m26-pcqx)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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