Server-Side Request Forgery in axios

Description

axios 1.7.2 allows SSRF via unexpected behavior where requests for path relative URLs get processed as protocol relative URLs.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): >= 1.3.2, <= 1.7.3
• Patched version(s): 1.7.4

References

• GHSA-8hc4-vh64-cxmj
• jeffhacks.com
• CVE-2024-39338
• CWE-918
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A10
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• axios Requests Vulnerable To Possible SSRF and Credential Leakage via Absolute URL - CVE-2025-27152
• PrismJS DOM Clobbering vulnerability - CVE-2024-53382
• qs vulnerable to Prototype Pollution - CVE-2022-24999
• axios Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability - CVE-2021-3749

Tags:

npm

axios