SCA: security update for axios (GHSA-777c-7fjr-54vf)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 442643

Description

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. Axios versions 1.7.0 through 1.15.x did
not enforce configured request and response size limits when requests were sent with the fetch adapter.
Applications that selected adapter: 'fetch', or ran in environments where axios resolved to the fetch
adapter, could receive or send bodies larger than maxContentLength or maxBodyLength despite those limits
being explicitly configured. This can cause resource exhaustion in server-side usage when a malicious or
compromised server returns an oversized response, when an attacker can supply a large data: URL, or when
an application forwards attacker-controlled request bodies through axios while relying on maxBodyLength as
a boundary. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.32.0 and 1.16.0. (CVE-2026-44488)

Solution

Update the axios library and its related packages to version 1.16.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 442643

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/4/2026

Updated: 6/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44488

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/4/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-44488

cwe: CWE-770

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