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.

According to its self-reported version number, the Atlassian Jira application running on the remote host is prior to 10.3.23 or 10.4.x prior to 11.3.8. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, including flaws in bundled third-party dependencies :

- A prototype pollution vulnerability in the bundled loader-utils dependency. (CVE-2022-37601)

- A HTTP request smuggling vulnerability in the bundled Netty dependency. (CVE-2026-42581)

- A cryptographic vulnerability in the bundled Bouncy Castle dependency. (CVE-2025-14813)

- A broken authentication and session management vulnerability. (CVE-2026-29145)

- A prototype pollution vulnerability in the bundled axios dependency. (CVE-2026-42044)

- An injection vulnerability in the bundled Immutable.js dependency. (CVE-2026-29063)

- A file inclusion vulnerability in the bundled tmp dependency. (CVE-2026-44705)

- An information disclosure vulnerability in the bundled Apache Tomcat dependency. (CVE-2026-29146)

- Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities in the bundled loader-utils dependency. (CVE-2022-37603, CVE-2022-37599)

- 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)

- A denial of service vulnerability in the bundled PostgreSQL JDBC Driver dependency. (CVE-2026-42198)

- A denial of service vulnerability in the bundled ajv dependency. (CVE-2025-69873)

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.

The version of IBM Cognos Analytics installed on the remote host is 12.0.4 prior to 12.0.4 FP3, or 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:

  - NLTK versions 3.9.2 and prior are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to improper input     validation in the StanfordSegmenter module. The module dynamically loads external Java .jar files     without verification or sandboxing. An attacker can supply or replace the JAR file, enabling the     execution of arbitrary Java bytecode at import time. (CVE-2026-0848)

  - The lodash fix for CVE-2021-23337 added validation for the variable option in _.template but did not     apply the same validation to options.imports key names. Both paths flow into the same Function()     constructor sink. When an application passes untrusted input as options.imports key names, an attacker     can inject default-parameter expressions that execute arbitrary code at template compilation time.
    (CVE-2026-4800)

  - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
    From 45.0.0 to before 46.0.7, if a non-contiguous buffer was passed to APIs which accepted Python     buffers (e.g. Hash.update()), this could lead to buffer overflows. (CVE-2026-39892)

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-2026:42078 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):

    * ansible-core: argument injection in ansible-galaxy role install leads to arbitrary code execution     (CVE-2026-11332)
    * automation-controller: Path traversal via malicious entry point name in pip wheel installation allows     arbitrary file overwrite (CVE-2026-8643)
    * automation-controller: urllib3: Denial of Service due to excessive HTTP response decompression     (CVE-2026-44432)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Proxy bypass via IPv4-mapped IPv6 address non-normalization (CVE-2026-44492)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Client-side Denial of Service via unescaped regex metacharacters in XSRF     cookie name (CVE-2026-44496)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack via Prototype Pollution (CVE-2026-44494)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Information disclosure of proxy credentials via HTTP redirects     (CVE-2026-44486)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Information disclosure of proxy credentials via redirect flows     (CVE-2026-44487)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Denial of Service due to unenforced request and response size limits     (CVE-2026-44488)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Information disclosure due to prototype pollution vulnerability     (CVE-2026-44495)
    * automation-gateway: fast-uri: URI authority bypass due to improper delimiter handling (CVE-2026-6322)
    * automation-gateway: Axios: Invisible JSON Response Tampering via Prototype Pollution Gadget     (CVE-2026-42044)
    * automation-gateway: fast-uri: Path traversal vulnerability allows bypass of security policies     (CVE-2026-6321)
    * automation-gateway: lodash: Arbitrary code execution via untrusted input in template imports     (CVE-2026-4800)
    * automation-gateway: missing requestHeadersToRemove allows mTLS bypass via Subject header spoofing     (CVE-2026-12382)
    * python3.12-pulpcore: relative_path_validator bypass via directory traversal in FilesystemExport     (CVE-2026-12701)
    * receptor: golang.org/x/net/html: Arbitrary code execution via Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2026-25681)
    * receptor: golang.org/x/net/html: Cross-Site Scripting via HTML parsing bypass (CVE-2026-27136)
    * receptor: Go net package: Denial of Service via long CNAME response in LookupCNAME (CVE-2026-33811)
    * receptor: golang.org/x/net/idna: Privilege escalation via incorrect Punycode label processing     (CVE-2026-39821)
    * receptor: Go crypto/x509: Denial of Service via inefficient certificate chain validation     (CVE-2026-32281)

    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-e187104307 advisory.

    33.0.4 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-2026-30881a5be7 advisory.

    33.0.4 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.

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. 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.
    (CVE-2026-42044)

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. 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.
    (CVE-2026-42044)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
115702	Atlassian Jira 10.4.x < 11.3.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	critical
115701	Atlassian Jira < 10.3.23 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Web App Scanning	Component Vulnerability	Version Based	critical
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
347960	IBM Cognos Analytics 12.0.4 < 12.0.4 FP3 / 12.1.x < 12.1.3 FP2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (7287209)	Nessus	CGI abuses	Remote	high
328365	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2026:42078)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
318777	Fedora 43 : nextcloud (2026-e187104307)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical
318764	Fedora 44 : nextcloud (2026-30881a5be7)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	critical
441074	SCA: security update for axios (GHSA-3w6x-2g7m-8v23)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
441074	SCA: security update for axios (GHSA-3w6x-2g7m-8v23)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
310518	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-42044	Nessus	Misc.	Local	critical

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