Axios vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery

Description

Axios NPM package 0.21.0 contains a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability where an attacker is able to bypass a proxy by providing a URL that responds with a redirect to a restricted host or IP address.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 0.21.1
• Patched version(s): 0.21.1

References

• GHSA-4w2v-q235-vp99
• snyk.io
• www.npmjs.com
• lists.apache.org
• cert-portal.siemens.com
• CVE-2020-28168
• CWE-918
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A10
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• cors-anywhere vulnerable to server-side request forgery - CVE-2020-36851
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• Server-Side Request Forgery in @uppy/companion (GHSA-mm7r-265w-jv6f) - CVE-2020-8135
• pdfmake is vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) - CVE-2026-26801

Tags:

npm

axios