Medium
node-axios — security advisory
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.
- Products
- node-axios
- Affected versions
- 0.19.0+dfsg-2, 0.19.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, 0.21.1+dfsg-1, 0.23.0+dfsg-2, 0.24.0+dfsg-1, 0.25.0+dfsg-2, 0.26.0+dfsg-1, 0.26.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.11.0+dfsg-1, 1.12.1+dfsg-1, 1.13.2+dfsg-1build1, 1.13.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.16.0-1, 1.18.0-1, 1.19.0-1, 1.2.1+dfsg-1, 1.5.1+dfsg-1, 1.6.2+dfsg-1, 1.6.8+dfsg-2, 1.6.8+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.7.9+dfsg-1, 1.8.4+dfsg-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-45857
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2023-45857
node-axios
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node-axios
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node-axios
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node-axios
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node-axios
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node-axios
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Complete source record
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