# CVE-2026-42264: Axios: Prototype pollution read-side gadgets in HTTP adapter allow credential injection and request hijacking

> CVE-2026-42264: Axios: Prototype pollution read-side gadgets in HTTP adapter allow credential injection and request hijacking. CVSS 7.4 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-42264
Last updated: 2026-09-11T13:17:58Z

- Published: 2026-05-08 03:20 UTC · Updated: 2026-09-11 13:17 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 7.4 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS: 0.77%, 55th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-1321

## Description

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From version 1.0.0 to before version 1.15.2, fFive config properties (auth, baseURL, socketPath, beforeRedirect, and insecureHTTPParser) in the HTTP adapter are read via direct property access without hasOwnProperty guards, making them exploitable as prototype pollution gadgets. When Object.prototype is polluted by another dependency in the same process, axios silently picks up these polluted values on every outbound HTTP request. This issue has been patched in version 1.15.2.

## Affected vendors and products

- axios: axios
- Red Hat: Cryostat 4
- Red Hat: Gatekeeper 3
- Red Hat: Migration Toolkit for Applications 8
- Red Hat: Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes
- Red Hat: Network Observability Operator
- Red Hat: OpenShift Pipelines
- Red Hat: Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2
- Red Hat: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
- Red Hat: Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.6
- Red Hat: Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.14.1
- Red Hat: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4
- Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4
- Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3
- Red Hat: Red Hat Data Grid 8.6.2
- Red Hat: Red Hat Developer Hub
- Red Hat: Red Hat Discovery 2
- 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 OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces
- Red Hat: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4
- Red Hat: Red Hat Process Automation 7
- Red Hat: Red Hat Quay 3
- Red Hat: Red Hat Satellite 6
- Red Hat: Self-service automation portal 2
- Red Hat: streams for Apache Kafka 2

## 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-2026-42264)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42264)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/47915144662f2733e6c051bdcb895a8c8f0586aa](https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/47915144662f2733e6c051bdcb895a8c8f0586aa)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10779](https://github.com/axios/axios/pull/10779)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.15.2](https://github.com/axios/axios/releases/tag/v1.15.2)
- [https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-q8qp-cvcw-x6jj](https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-q8qp-cvcw-x6jj)

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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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