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CVE-2025-27152 — axios:axios

CVSS v3.1 5.3 (MEDIUM) · EPSS 0.0% (higher than 21.8% of all scored CVEs) · Priority 3.5/10 · Published 2025-03-07

As of 2025-11-25, CVE-2025-27152 is a MEDIUM-severity vulnerability in axios:axios, CVSS v3.1 5.3, EPSS 0.0% (21.8th percentile). Threadlinqs Intelligence links 2 tracked threat campaigns to CVE-2025-27152, most recently “Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Campaign Hijacks Sessions via Residential Proxies to Harvest Payroll and Finance Emails”.

Last updated: 2025-11-25

What is CVE-2025-27152?

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.

The record classifies CVE-2025-27152 under weakness class CWE-918. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw is reachable remotely over the network, needs no prior authentication, needs no user interaction. 1 affected-product entry is recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 555 days ago.

Severity and exploitation probability

CVSS v3.1 base score: 5.3 — MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS (FIRST): 0.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 21.8% of all scored CVEs
CISA KEV: Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Threadlinqs priority: 3.5/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
Published: 2025-03-07, last modified 2025-11-25

Is CVE-2025-27152 being exploited?

It currently carries a trending score of 10 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.

Affected products and versions

(vendor unspecified): axios:axios

How to fix CVE-2025-27152

No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-27152 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.

Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-27152

2 tracked threats in the Threadlinqs corpus reference CVE-2025-27152, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.

Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Campaign Hijacks Sessions via Residential Proxies to Harvest Payroll and Finance Emails — HIGH · 2026-08-07
Storm-2755 'Payroll Pirate' Campaign: AiTM Phishing and Workday Account Hijacking Targeting Canadian Employees (CVE-2025-27152) — HIGH · 2026-04-10

Sources

Seeded from nvd and not yet processed by the Threadlinqs enrichment pipeline, so blank CVSS, EPSS or KEV fields above mean NOT MEASURED rather than measured-absent.

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