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CVE-2026-101907

Vulnerability in axios (CVE-2026-101907)

Summary

Vulnerability in axios (CVE-2026-101907). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Exploitable via maxRedirects. Mitigation: upgrade to 1.20.0 or later.

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Summary

Axios exposes maxRedirects to limit redirect following, and maxRedirects: 0 is used by applications as a redirect-based SSRF guard. The Node HTTP adapter enforces this option. The fetch adapter does not read it and does not set a Fetch API redirect mode, so the runtime default of redirect: 'follow' applies.

Applications are affected when they rely on maxRedirects: 0 and use the fetch adapter, either explicitly or because the runtime selects it.

Impact

An attacker who controls the initial URL or a redirecting server can cause a fetch-adapter request to follow a redirect even though the caller configured maxRedirects: 0. If the redirect target is reachable only from the application environment, this can expose internal responses or trigger state-changing internal endpoints.

This should not be described as unconditional SSRF. The bypass requires a redirect source, such as an attacker-controlled server or open redirect, and an application that trusted maxRedirects: 0 as the redirect guard.

Affected Functionality

Affected:

  • adapter: 'fetch'.
  • Runtime environments where fetch is selected by adapter resolution.
  • Requests configured with maxRedirects: 0 but without fetchOptions.redirect: 'manual' or equivalent runtime-specific redirect control.

Not affected:

  • Node HTTP adapter, which enforces maxRedirects: 0.
  • Requests that do not follow redirects in the underlying fetch implementation because the caller explicitly configured fetc…

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory

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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-101907 has been found in axios.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like maxRedirects over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade axios to 1.20.0 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "axios CVE-2026-101907" on the vendor's site.

CVE-2026-101907 (axios) — CWE-441
Attack surface: maxRedirects / redirect / INTERNAL / resolveConfig
Patched: 1.20.0 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.

❓ What is the problem

A vulnerability (CWE-441) exists in axios. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via maxRedirects.

📍 Affected scope

Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of axios. Attack surface: maxRedirects / redirect / INTERNAL / resolveConfig.

🔥 Severity

Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.

🔧 How to fix

Update to 1.20.0.

🛡️ Workaround

Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.

🔍 Detection

Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'axios' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.

Response actions

Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order

  1. 1
    Identify exposure identify
    grep -r 'axios' . | grep -v node_modules

    リポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で axios を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。

  2. 2
    Apply patch patch
    Upgrade axios to 1.20.0

    ステージング環境で 1.20.0 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。

  3. 3
    Post-deployment verification verify
    Confirm patched version is live in production

    パッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。

Affected packages

npm axios
[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"1.17.0"},{"fixed":"1.20.0"}]}]

References

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