UBUNTU-CVE-2026-44490

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...

CVE-2026-44490

Summary : CVE-2026-44490 affects Axios up to versions before 0.32.0 and 1.16.0, where two read-side prototype-pollution gadgets can cause polluted Object.prototype values to be exposed in headers or trigger TypeError during requests. The root cause is how the merge accumulator and hasOwnProperty ...