GHSA-hfxv-24rg-xrqf · Severity: high · Ecosystem: npm — Axios: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Cookie Name Injection
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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-44496 is rated Exploit Available (58.7/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.49%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.05% | 0.49% | +0.43% |
| 2 | 2026-06-13 | 0.04% | 0.05% | +0.01% |
| 3 | 2026-06-12 | — | 0.04% | — |
Full EPSS history (3 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 7.5 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
GHSA-hfxv-24rg-xrqf · Severity: high · Ecosystem: npm — Axios: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Cookie Name Injection
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2026-44496 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (node-axios), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 3, resolved 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-44496 |
redhat
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high | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-44496 |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-hfxv-24rg-xrqf | Exploit Mitigation Vendor Advisory |