Security: Upgrade axios to fix CVE-2021-3749
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- security
Research direction
Locate the axios dependency and any custom axios configurations, then review the migration guide and existing API calls for 1.x breaking changes. Run the full test suite and verify that axios is upgraded to ^1.6.0 or later, tests pass, and affected configurations or API calls still work.
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Description
Security Vulnerability
Package: axios
Current Version: 0.21.1
Vulnerability: CVE-2021-3749 (Regular Expression Denial of Service)
Severity: Moderate
Issue
The current version of axios (0.21.1) has a known security vulnerability:
- CVE-2021-3749: Regular expression denial of service in trim function
- CVSS Score: 7.5 (High)
Recommendation
Upgrade axios to version 1.6.0 or later, which includes:
- Security fixes for multiple CVEs
- Better TypeScript support
- Improved error handling
- Node.js 18+ compatibility
Migration Notes
Axios 1.x has some breaking changes from 0.x:
- Response data is now accessed via
response.data(unchanged) - Some internal APIs have changed
- Default timeout behavior may differ
References
Acceptance Criteria
- Upgrade axios to ^1.6.0 or later
- Run all tests to verify functionality
- Check for any breaking changes in API calls
- Update any custom axios configurations if needed
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 1.7k
- Forks
- 370
- Avg merge
- 2d 15h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 6
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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