Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in axios - CVE-2026-44492

 

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in axios - CVE-2026-44492

Published: May 29, 2026


Vulnerability identifier: #VU132755
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-44492
CWE-ID: CWE-918
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: Public exploit is available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to the "shouldBypassProxy" does not normalise IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.


Affected software

axios
Jira Service Management Data Center
Crowd Data Center
IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services
Confluence Data Center
Bitbucket Data Center
Jira Software Data Center
Bamboo Data Center
IBM Security SOAR
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
JBoss Data Grid

How to mitigate CVE-2026-44492

Install updates from vendor's website.

axios - addressed in versions 0.32.0, 1.16.0
Jira Service Management Data Center - addressed in versions 10.3.23, 11.3.10
Crowd Data Center - update to 7.2.2
IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services - update to 9.0.0.0.0 IF14
Confluence Data Center - addressed in versions 9.2.22, 10.2.14
Bitbucket Data Center - addressed in versions 9.4.21, 10.2.4, 10.3.1
Jira Software Data Center - addressed in versions 10.3.23, 11.3.7
Bamboo Data Center - addressed in versions 10.2.20, 12.1.8
IBM Security SOAR - update to 51.0.10.2
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - addressed in versions 4.14.69, 4.16.65, 4.19.37
JBoss Data Grid - update to 8.6.2

Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

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