Axios Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Description

An issue discovered in Axios 0.8.1 through 1.5.1 inadvertently reveals the confidential XSRF-TOKEN stored in cookies by including it in the HTTP header X-XSRF-TOKEN for every request made to any host allowing attackers to view sensitive information.

Recommendation

Update the axios package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): **>= 0.8.1, < 0.28.0

  >= 1.0.0, < 1.6.0**

• Patched version(s): **0.28.0

  1.6.0**

References

• GHSA-wf5p-g6vw-rhxx
• security.snyk.io
• security.netapp.com
• CVE-2023-45857
• CWE-352
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• @builder.io/qwik-city Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability - CVE-2023-2307
• NASA Open MCT Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability - CVE-2023-45884
• SvelteKit vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery - CVE-2023-29003
• Vega has Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in `lassoAppend` function - CVE-2023-26487

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axios