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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 26.04 LTS : Axios vulnerabilities (USN-8638-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 365455

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected node-axios package.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8638-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 365455

File Name: ubuntu_USN-8638-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/13/2026

Updated: 10/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

Percentile: 96.77

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-2026-42264

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-42043

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-62718

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:26.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:node-axios

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-62718, CVE-2026-40175, CVE-2026-42043, CVE-2026-42044, CVE-2026-42264

USN: 8638-1