Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.0 and 0.31.0, Axios does not correctly handle hostname normalization when checking NO_PROXY rules. Requests to loopback addresses like localhost. (with a trailing dot) or [::1] (IPv6 literal) skip NO_PROXY matching and go through the configured proxy. This goes against what developers expect and lets attackers force requests through a proxy, even if NO_PROXY is set up to protect loopback or internal services. This issue leads to the possibility of proxy bypass and SSRF vulnerabilities allowing attackers to reach sensitive loopback or internal services despite the configured protections. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.0 and 0.31.0.

According to its self-reported version number, the Atlassian Confluence application running on the remote host is prior to 9.2.22 or 9.3.x prior to 10.2.14. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including flaws in bundled third-party dependencies :

- Multiple server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-42043, CVE-2025-62718, CVE-2026-40175, CVE-2026-44492)

- A remote code execution vulnerability in the bundled lodash dependency. (CVE-2026-4800)

- A HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in the bundled Eclipse Jetty dependency. (CVE-2026-2332)

- A prototype pollution vulnerability in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-42264)

- Multiple injection vulnerabilities in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-44494, CVE-2026-44490, CVE-2026-42041, CVE-2026-42035, CVE-2026-42033)

- A remote code execution vulnerability in the bundled form-data dependency. (CVE-2026-12143)

- Multiple information disclosure vulnerabilities in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-44487, CVE-2026-44486)

- A file inclusion vulnerability in the bundled node-tar dependency. (CVE-2026-31802)

- An information disclosure vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence. (CVE-2026-21579)

- A denial of service vulnerability in the bundled serialize-javascript dependency. (CVE-2026-34043)

- Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the bundled Netty dependency. (CVE-2026-42583, CVE-2026-42587)

- Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-44496, CVE-2026-44488)

- A file inclusion vulnerability in the bundled fast-uri dependency. (CVE-2026-6321)

- An injection vulnerability in the bundled fast-uri dependency. (CVE-2026-6322)

- An injection vulnerability in the bundled js-cookie dependency. (CVE-2026-46625)

- A denial of service vulnerability in the bundled picomatch dependency. (CVE-2026-33671)

- A denial of service vulnerability. (CVE-2026-48779)

- A denial of service vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence. (CVE-2026-21577)

- A remote code execution vulnerability in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-44495)

- An injection vulnerability in the bundled logback dependency. (CVE-2025-11226)

Note that the scanner has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8638-1 advisory.

    Ameer Assadi discovered that Axios did not properly handle certain hostnames when applying NO_PROXY rules.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass proxy restrictions and access internal services,     resulting in server-side request forgery. (CVE-2025-62718)

    It was discovered that Axios did not properly protect certain HTTP header values from prototype pollution.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject malicious values into outbound requests, resulting in     HTTP header injection. (CVE-2026-40175)

    Sachin Patil and Amol Patil discovered that Axios did not properly apply NO_PROXY rules to certain     loopback addresses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass proxy restrictions and access     internal services, resulting in server-side request forgery. (CVE-2026-42043)

    Yu Bao discovered that Axios did not properly protect JSON response processing from prototype pollution.
    An attacker could possibly use this issue to modify values in application responses, resulting in     authorization bypass or privilege escalation. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42044)

    It was discovered that Axios did not properly protect certain request configuration options from prototype     pollution. An attacker could possibly use this issue to modify outbound HTTP requests, resulting in     security restrictions being bypassed. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2026-42264)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.0 and 0.31.0, Axios does
    not correctly handle hostname normalization when checking NO_PROXY rules. Requests to loopback addresses
    like localhost. (with a trailing dot) or [::1] (IPv6 literal) skip NO_PROXY matching and go through the
    configured proxy. This goes against what developers expect and lets attackers force requests through a
    proxy, even if NO_PROXY is set up to protect loopback or internal services. This issue leads to the
    possibility of proxy bypass and SSRF vulnerabilities allowing attackers to reach sensitive loopback or
    internal services despite the configured protections. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.0 and 0.31.0.
    (CVE-2025-62718)

The version of IBM Cognos Analytics installed on the remote host is 12.1.x prior to 12.1.3 FP2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the IBM Security Bulletin No. 7287209. These vulnerabilities are applicable only to version 12.1.3 due to newer functionalities and an updated software stack:

  - Arbitrary class instantiation via model manifest in Apache OpenNLP ExtensionLoader. The     ExtensionLoader.instantiateExtension() method loads a class by its fully-qualified name via     Class.forName() and invokes its no-arg constructor, with the class name sourced from the     manifest.properties entry of a model archive. An attacker who can supply a crafted model archive can     cause the static initializer of any class on the classpath to run during model loading.
    (CVE-2026-42027)

  - XML External Entity (XXE) via unsanitized dictionary parsing in Apache OpenNLP     DictionaryEntryPersistor. An attacker who can supply a crafted dictionary file containing a malicious     DOCTYPE declaration can trigger local file disclosure via file:// entity references or server-side     request forgery via http:// entity references during SAX parsing. (CVE-2026-40682)

  - An authenticated attacker may bypass the fix in CVE-2026-34197 by adding a connector using an HTTP     Discovery transport via BrokerView.addNetworkConnector or BrokerView.addConnector through Jolokia if the     activemq-http module is on the classpath, resulting in arbitrary code execution on the Apache ActiveMQ     broker's JVM. (CVE-2026-40466)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:24761 advisory.

    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing     IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to     individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing     knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an     organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless     language.

    Security Fix(es):
    * automation-controller: Cryptography: Buffer overflow via non-contiguous buffer in API (CVE-2026-39892)
    * automation-controller: pyasn1 Vulnerable to Denial of Service via Unbounded Recursion (CVE-2026-30922)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Server-Side Request Forgery and proxy bypass due to improper hostname     normalization (CVE-2025-62718)
    * automation-gateway: Vite: Information disclosure via WebSocket connection bypasses access control     (CVE-2026-39363)
    * automation-gateway: node-forge: Denial of Service via infinite loop in BigInteger.modInverse()     (CVE-2026-33891)
    * automation-gateway: Forge: Signature Forgery via Weak RSASSA PKCS#1 v1.5 Verification (CVE-2026-33894)
    * automation-gateway: Forge: Authentication bypass via forged Ed25519 cryptographic signatures     (CVE-2026-33895)
    * automation-gateway: Forge (node-forge): Certificate validation bypass allows unauthorized certificate     issuance (CVE-2026-33896)
    * automation-gateway: path-to-regexp: Denial of Service via crafted regular expressions (CVE-2026-4926)
    * automation-gateway: Minimatch: Denial of Service via catastrophic backtracking in glob expressions     (CVE-2026-27904)
    * automation-gateway: minimatch: Denial of Service via specially crafted glob patterns (CVE-2026-26996)
    * automation-gateway-proxy: Go crypto/tls: Denial of Service via multiple TLS 1.3 key update messages     (CVE-2026-32283)
    * automation-gateway-proxy: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building     (CVE-2026-32280)
    * python3.12-click: Arbitrary command execution via command injection in click.edit() (CVE-2026-7246)
    * python3.12-cryptography: Buffer overflow via non-contiguous buffer in API (CVE-2026-39892)
    * python3.12-pillow: Denial of Service via decompression bomb in FITS image processing (CVE-2026-40192)
    * receptor: Go crypto/tls: Denial of Service via multiple TLS 1.3 key update messages (CVE-2026-32283)
    * receptor: Go: Denial of Service vulnerability in certificate chain building (CVE-2026-32280)
    * receptor: Root.Chmod can follow symlinks out of the root (CVE-2026-32282)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    For details about this release, refer to the release notes listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-6599e30e04 advisory.

    33.0.3 Release

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-cb5661d883 advisory.

    33.0.3 Release

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-2fed8dd674 advisory.

    33.0.3 Release

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-34c2bf6df4 advisory.

    Update axios to 1.15.0, fixes CVE-2026-40175 and CVE-2025-62718.

    ----

    Update to pgadmin4-9.14.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-e9ecdd44c4 advisory.

    Update axios to 1.15.0, fixes CVE-2026-40175 and CVE-2025-62718.

    ----

    Update to pgadmin4-9.14.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-b4633cbe23 advisory.

    Update axios to 1.15.0, fixes CVE-2026-40175 and CVE-2025-62718.

    ----

    Update to pgadmin4-9.14.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.0 and 0.31.0, Axios does     not correctly handle hostname normalization when checking NO_PROXY rules. Requests to loopback addresses     like localhost. (with a trailing dot) or [::1] (IPv6 literal) skip NO_PROXY matching and go through the     configured proxy. This goes against what developers expect and lets attackers force requests through a     proxy, even if NO_PROXY is set up to protect loopback or internal services. This issue leads to the     possibility of proxy bypass and SSRF vulnerabilities allowing attackers to reach sensitive loopback or     internal services despite the configured protections. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.0 and 0.31.0.
    (CVE-2025-62718)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of the axios Node.js module installed on the remote host is prior to 1.15.0. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - Axios does not correctly handle hostname normalization when checking NO_PROXY rules. Requests to loopback     addresses like localhost. (with a trailing dot) or [::1] (IPv6 literal) skip NO_PROXY matching and go through     the configured proxy. This allows attackers to force requests through a proxy, even if NO_PROXY is set up to     protect loopback or internal services, leading to the possibility of proxy bypass and SSRF vulnerabilities.
    (CVE-2025-62718)

  - The Axios library is vulnerable to a specific Gadget attack chain that allows Prototype Pollution in any     third-party dependency to be escalated into Remote Code Execution (RCE) or Full Cloud Compromise via AWS IMDSv2     bypass. (CVE-2026-40175)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
115694	Atlassian Confluence 9.3.x < 10.2.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	high
115693	Atlassian Confluence < 9.2.22 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	high
365455	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : Axios vulnerabilities (USN-8638-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	medium
463015	Echo: axios: security update to 0.31.0	Tenable Cloud Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
463015	Echo: axios: security update to 0.31.0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Echo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
347959	IBM Cognos Analytics 12.1.x < 12.1.3 FP2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (7287209)	Nessus	CGI abuses	Remote	high
320178	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2026:24761)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
313733	Fedora 43 : nextcloud (2026-6599e30e04)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
313662	Fedora 44 : nextcloud (2026-cb5661d883)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
313661	Fedora 42 : nextcloud (2026-2fed8dd674)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
310218	Fedora 44 : pgadmin4 (2026-34c2bf6df4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
309861	Fedora 43 : pgadmin4 (2026-e9ecdd44c4)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
309859	Fedora 42 : pgadmin4 (2026-b4633cbe23)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	medium
307027	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-62718	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
306741	Node.js Module axios < 1.15.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
440122	SCA: security update for axios (GHSA-3p68-rc4w-qgx5)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium
440122	SCA: security update for axios (GHSA-3p68-rc4w-qgx5)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	medium

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