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SCA: security update for axios (GHSA-3w6x-2g7m-8v23)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441074

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. 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)

Solution

Update the axios library and its related packages to version 1.15.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3w6x-2g7m-8v23

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 441074

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/5/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.68

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42044

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/24/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-42044