CVE-2026-44490 Axios: DoS & Header Injection via Prototype Pollution Read-Side Gadgets in axios merge functions

Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 0.32.0 and 1.16.0, axios exposes two read-side prototype-pollution gadgets. When Object.prototype is polluted by an upstream dependency in the same process e.g. lodash .merge / CVE-2018-16487, axios silently picks up the...