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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 11, 2026· Updated Jun 12, 2026

CVE-2026-44496

CVE-2026-44496

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.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
axiosnpm
>= 1.0.0, < 1.16.01.16.0
axiosnpm
< 0.32.00.32.0

Affected products

30

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