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SCA: security update for axios (GHSA-654m-c8p4-x5fp)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 442473

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 1.15.2 to before 1.16.0, nested
 objects created by utils.merge() (e.g., config.proxy) are still constructed as plain {} with
 Object.prototype in their chain. The setProxy() function at lib/adapters/http.js:209-223 reads
 proxy.username, proxy.password, and proxy.auth without hasOwnProperty checks. When
 Object.prototype.username is polluted, setProxy() constructs a Proxy-Authorization header with attacker-
 controlled credentials and injects it into every proxied HTTP request. This vulnerability is fixed in
 1.16.0. (CVE-2026-44489)

Solution

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

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-654m-c8p4-x5fp

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 442473

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/29/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44489

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/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: 5/29/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-44489