GHSA-wf5p-g6vw-rhxx is a medium-severity (CVSS 6.5) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in axios. 1 public exploit reference exists, so weaponization risk is real. A fix is available for axios — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Exploitation Status
Proof-of-concept exploit code exists
- CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-wf5p-g6vw-rhxx.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
GHSA-wf5p-g6vw-rhxx by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 394,803 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Real-World Exposure
How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.
axiosnpmDescription
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.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | axios | ≥ 1.0.0&&< 1.6.0 | 1.6.0npm install axios@1.6.0 |
| 📦npm | axios | ≥ 0.8.1&&< 0.28.0 | 0.28.0npm install axios@0.28.0 |
Affected Products
axiosaxiosResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for axios, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update axios to 1.6.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-wf5p-g6vw-rhxx is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
Fixing This On Your OS
If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.
For Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM), the affected container was deprecated in ACM 2.5 version which is not anymore supported. Following versions of this product are not impacted by this issue.
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.Source: Red Hat security advisory for GHSA-wf5p-g6vw-rhxx (CC BY 4.0)
| Product | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|
| Migration Toolkit for Runtimes 1 on RHEL 8 | axios | RHSA-2024:3920 |
| MTA-6.2-RHEL-9 | mta/mta-windup-addon-rhel9:6.2.3-2 | RHSA-2024:3989 |
| MTA-7.0-RHEL-9 | mta/mta-cli-rhel9:7.0.3-16 | RHSA-2024:3316 |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.7 | advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-central-db-rhel8:4.7.0-4 | RHSA-2025:2876 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | automation-controller-0:4.5.5-2.el8ap | RHSA-2024:1640 |
| Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.8 | rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8:v1.8.3-4 | RHSA-2024:1925 |
| RHEL-8-CNV-4.12 | container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin:v4.12.12-7 | RHSA-2024:4269 |
| RHEL-9-CNV-4.13 | container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin-rhel9:v4.13.10-387 | RHSA-2024:5314 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is GHSA-wf5p-g6vw-rhxx in your dependencies?
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