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axios 1.17.0 vulnerabilities, and the version that fixes all of them

axios 1.17.0 has 22 known vulnerabilities (8 rated high or critical); 1.20.0 fixes all of them.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js”

Known vulnerabilities
22
8 rated high or critical
Released
Jun 3, 2026
Latest is 1.20.0
Downloads last week
2.2M
2% of axios downloads
Licence
MIT
OpenSSF Scorecard
7.7/10
axios/axios (opens in a new tab)
Pulls in
29 packages
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

1.20.0 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.

  • 1.20.0Upgrade to this

    Fixes all 22 known vulnerabilities and the newest 1.x release and the latest release. Released Aug 26, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

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Findings

Every advisory for axios 1.17.0

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. WarningCVE-2026-67318 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-mwf2-3pr3-8698EPSS: top 52%

    Axios: HTTP/2 streamed uploads bypass `maxBodyLength`

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  2. WarningCVE-2026-67317 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-jqh4-m9w3-8hp9EPSS: top 53%

    Axios: Fetch adapter `ReadableStream` uploads bypass `maxBodyLength`

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  3. WarningCVE-2026-101900 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-4hqw-qxg8-jxx2EPSS: top 56%

    Axios: Fetch Adapter Header Injection via Inherited FormData getHeaders

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  4. WarningCVE-2026-67321 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-hcpx-6fm6-wx23EPSS: top 57%

    Axios form serializer maxDepth bypass via {} metatoken

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  5. CriticalCVE-2026-101898 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-3pq3-5fj3-cg6vEPSS: top 57%

    Axios: HTTP/2 adapter bypasses configured DNS lookup and proxy controls

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  6. WarningCVE-2026-101899 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-44g4-m2mj-wpvxEPSS: top 57%

    Axios: CIDR-form NO_PROXY entries are ignored, causing proxy exclusion bypass for internal IP ranges

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  7. CriticalCVE-2026-67320 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-gcfj-64vw-6mp9EPSS: top 57%

    Axios Node HTTP adapter can use an inherited proxy after interceptor config cloning

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  8. WarningCVE-2026-67313 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-42h9-826w-cgv3EPSS: top 58%

    Axios: Excessive recursion in formDataToJSON can cause denial of service

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  9. WarningCVE-2026-67312 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-pmv8-rq9r-6j72EPSS: top 58%

    Axios: Deep formToJSON Key Recursion Can Cause Denial of Service

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  10. WarningCVE-2026-67315 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-f4gw-2p7v-4548EPSS: top 62%

    Axios: NO_PROXY bypass for 0.0.0.0 local addresses in axios

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  11. WarningCVE-2026-101904 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-j8rh-479h-cp32EPSS: top 65%

    Axios: Header Injection via Inherited headers After Minimal Interceptor

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  12. WarningCVE-2026-67316 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-mmx7-hfxf-jppxEPSS: top 65%

    Axios: Prototype pollution gadgets can alter axios request construction

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  13. CriticalCVE-2026-101907 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-r4gj-5m52-g5whEPSS: top 66%

    Axios: maxRedirects: 0 is not enforced by the fetch adapter, allowing redirect-based SSRF

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  14. WarningCVE-2026-101908 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-vh66-26gq-q6x8EPSS: top 66%

    Axios: Prototype pollution gadget in fetch adapter can alter outbound requests

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  15. WarningCVE-2026-101902 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-9fr6-4gfg-395gEPSS: top 66%

    Axios: Prototype-Pollution Gadget in the Default Instance Allows Inherited Object.prototype.method to Override HTTP Method

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  16. WarningCVE-2026-67314 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-xj6q-8x83-jv6gEPSS: top 67%

    Axios: Prototype pollution auth subfields can inject Basic auth

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  17. CriticalCVE-2026-101906 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-mghh-pgcx-3jjjEPSS: top 68%

    Axios: ReDoS (O(N²)) in shouldBypassProxy host normalization, reachable via untrusted redirect Location

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  18. CriticalCVE-2026-101901 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-542g-h47m-68v8EPSS: top 70%

    Axios: Denial of Service via Unhandled 'error' Event in HTTP/2 ClientHttp2Session Initialization

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  19. CriticalCVE-2026-101903 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-c29m-xwm3-cm6rEPSS: top 70%

    Axios: ReDoS in fromDataURI data: URL parser freezes the Node event loop (DoS)

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  20. CriticalCVE-2026-101909 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-x97p-jq2g-jp4fEPSS: top 73%

    Axios: Prototype Pollution Gadget in axios toFormData Options

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

  21. WarningCVE-2026-67319 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-7q8q-rj6j-mhjqEPSS: top 77%

    Axios: Nested axios option objects can consume polluted prototype values

    Fixed in 1.18.0. Published Jul 20, 2026.

  22. CriticalCVE-2026-101905 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-m8m8-qj5v-23w3EPSS: top 80%

    Axios: Node HTTP adapter prototype-pollution gadget allows request socket hijack via inherited createConnection

    Fixed in 1.20.0. Published Sep 30, 2026.

Who is still on a vulnerable axios

62% of last week’s 119.1M axios downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly axios 1.17.0, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.