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CVE-2023-45857: Axios Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-11-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

An issue discovered in Axios 1.5.1 inadvertently reveals the confidential XSRF-TOKEN stored in cookies by including it in the HTTP header X-XSRF-TOKEN for every request made to any host allowing attackers to view sensitive information.

Affected products

• axios: 1.5.1
• Npm Axios: from 1.0.0 before 1.6.0; from 0.8.1 before 0.28.0 — fixed in 1.6.0, 0.28.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Npm Axios 1.6.0, 0.28.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/6006
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
• https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/6006
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/

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