# CVE-2025-27152: Possible SSRF and Credential Leakage via Absolute URL in axios Requests

- Also known as: GHSA-JR5F-V2JV-69X6
- Severity: CVSS 7.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: 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/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 1.8.2, 0.30.0
- Published: 2025-03-07 · Updated: 2025-03-07

## Affected

- axios: fixed in 1.8.2
- axios (npm): from 1.0.0, fixed in 1.8.2
- axios (npm): fixed in 0.30.0

## Description

axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js. The issue occurs when passing absolute URLs rather than protocol-relative URLs to axios. Even if ⁠baseURL is set, axios sends the request to the specified absolute URL, potentially causing SSRF and credential leakage. This issue impacts both server-side and client-side usage of axios. This issue is fixed in 1.8.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on axios, upgrade to a fixed version (1.8.2, 0.30.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/axios/axios/security/advisories/GHSA-jr5f-v2jv-69x6
- https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/6463
- https://github.com/andreglock/axios-ssrf
- https://github.com/davidblakecoe/axios-CVE-2025-27152-PoC

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