CVE-2025-27152: Possible SSRF and Credential Leakage via Absolute URL in axios Requests

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2025-03-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-918

Description

axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js. The issue occurs when passing absolute URLs rather than protocol-relative URLs to axios. Even if ⁠baseURL is set, axios sends the request to the specified absolute URL, potentially causing SSRF and credential leakage. This issue impacts both server-side and client-side usage of axios. This issue is fixed in 1.8.2.

Affected products

axios: before 0.30.0; from 1.0.0 through 1.7.9 — fixed in 0.30.0
Npm Axios: from 1.0.0 before 1.8.2; before 0.30.0 — fixed in 1.8.2, 0.30.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: axios 0.30.0; Npm Axios 1.8.2, 0.30.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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