Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Axios versions before 0.32.0 on the 0.x line and before 1.16.0 on the 1.x line build a regular expression from the configured XSRF cookie name without escaping regex metacharacters. In standard browser environments, an attacker who can influence the cookie name passed to axios can cause expensive regex backtracking while axios reads document.cookie. The practical impact is client-side availability degradation, such as freezing the affected browser tab while axios prepares a request. The issue does not affect ordinary Node.js HTTP adapter usage, React Native, or web workers, where axios does not read document.cookie. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.32.0 and 1.16.0.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hfxv-24rg-xrqf Axios: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Cookie Name Injection
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20889 cve-icon
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https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44496 cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487943 cve-icon
https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-hfxv-24rg-xrqf cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44496 cve-icon
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-44496.json cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44496 cve-icon
History

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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Important


Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:15:00 +0000

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CPEs cpe:2.3:a:axios:axios:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Axios
Axios axios
Vendors & Products Axios
Axios axios

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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Description Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Axios versions before 0.32.0 on the 0.x line and before 1.16.0 on the 1.x line build a regular expression from the configured XSRF cookie name without escaping regex metacharacters. In standard browser environments, an attacker who can influence the cookie name passed to axios can cause expensive regex backtracking while axios reads document.cookie. The practical impact is client-side availability degradation, such as freezing the affected browser tab while axios prepares a request. The issue does not affect ordinary Node.js HTTP adapter usage, React Native, or web workers, where axios does not read document.cookie. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.32.0 and 1.16.0.
Title Axios: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Cookie Name Injection
Weaknesses CWE-1333
CWE-400
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T12:04:24.479Z

Reserved: 2026-05-06T18:28:20.885Z

Link: CVE-2026-44496

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T12:04:24.479Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2026-06-11T17:16:33.590

Modified: 2026-08-13T13:19:02.583

Link: CVE-2026-44496

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-06-11T15:34:28Z

Links: CVE-2026-44496 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-06-11T20:45:10Z

Weaknesses