UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42044

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-42044
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42044.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42044
Upstream
Published
2026-04-24T18:16:00Z
Modified
2026-06-30T18:18:06.174013657Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • 7.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. From 1.0.0 to before 1.15.2, he Axios library is vulnerable to a Prototype Pollution "Gadget" attack that allows any Object.prototype pollution in the application's dependency tree to be escalated into surgical, invisible modification of all JSON API responses — including privilege escalation, balance manipulation, and authorization bypass. The default transformResponse function at lib/defaults/index.js:124 calls JSON.parse(data, this.parseReviver), where this is the merged config object. Because parseReviver is not present in Axios defaults, not validated by assertOptions, and not subject to any constraints, a polluted Object.prototype.parseReviver function is called for every key-value pair in every JSON response, allowing the attacker to selectively modify individual values while leaving the rest of the response intact. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.15.2.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / node-axios

Package

Name
node-axios
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-axios?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.19.0+dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "node-axios",
            "binary_version": "0.19.0+dfsg-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42044.json"

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / node-axios

Package

Name
node-axios
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-axios?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*
0.21.1+dfsg-1
0.23.0+dfsg-2
0.24.0+dfsg-1
0.25.0+dfsg-2
0.26.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "node-axios",
            "binary_version": "0.26.0+dfsg-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42044.json"

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS / node-axios

Package

Name
node-axios
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-axios?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.2.1+dfsg-1
1.5.1+dfsg-1
1.6.2+dfsg-1
1.6.8+dfsg-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "node-axios",
            "binary_version": "1.6.8+dfsg-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42044.json"

Ubuntu:25.10 / node-axios

Package

Name
node-axios
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-axios?arch=source&distro=questing

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.7.9+dfsg-1
1.8.4+dfsg-1
1.11.0+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "node-axios",
            "binary_version": "1.11.0+dfsg-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42044.json"

Ubuntu:26.04:LTS / node-axios

Package

Name
node-axios
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-axios?arch=source&distro=resolute

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.11.0+dfsg-1
1.12.1+dfsg-1
1.13.2+dfsg-1build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "node-axios",
            "binary_version": "1.13.2+dfsg-1build1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42044.json"