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Axios Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 8, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 20, 2024

Package

npm axios (npm)

Affected versions

>= 1.0.0, < 1.6.0
>= 0.8.1, < 0.28.0

Patched versions

1.6.0
0.28.0

Description

An issue discovered in Axios 0.8.1 through 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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 8, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 8, 2023
Reviewed Nov 10, 2023
Last updated Feb 20, 2024

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-45857

GHSA ID

GHSA-wf5p-g6vw-rhxx

Source code

Credits

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