OCPBUGS-85032: CVE-2026-42041 openshift4/ose-console: Axios: Authentication bypass due to prototype pollution of HTTP error handling [openshift-4.14.z]

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…cation bypass due to prototype pollution of HTTP error handling [openshift-4.14.z]

CVE-2026-42041 is a Prototype Pollution vulnerability in axios that allows authentication bypass via prototype pollution of the validateStatus config property. When Object.prototype.validateStatus is polluted with () => true, all HTTP error responses (401, 403, 500) are silently treated as successful, completely bypassing application authentication and error handling.

Changes:

• Updated axios from 0.31.0 to 0.31.1 in dependencies
• Updated axios from 0.31.0 to 0.31.1 in resolutions
• Updated yarn.lock to lock axios@npm:0.31.1

Verification:

• yarn lint: ✅ Passed (5 pre-existing warnings, none related to axios)
• yarn test: ✅ Passed (all test suites passed, exit code 0)
• yarn build: ✅ Passed (all assets generated successfully, exit code 0)

The axios 0.31.1 release fixes this vulnerability in the 0.x branch. No breaking changes or test failures introduced by this update.

Related: OCPBUGS-85032

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…cation bypass due to prototype pollution of HTTP error handling [openshift-4.14.z]

CVE-2026-42041 is a Prototype Pollution vulnerability in axios that allows authentication bypass via prototype pollution of the validateStatus config property. When Object.prototype.validateStatus is polluted with () => true, all HTTP error responses (401, 403, 500) are silently treated as successful, completely bypassing application authentication and error handling.

Changes:

• Updated axios from 0.31.0 to 0.31.1 in dependencies
• Updated axios from 0.31.0 to 0.31.1 in resolutions
• Updated yarn.lock to lock axios@npm:0.31.1

Verification:

• yarn lint: ✅ Passed (5 pre-existing warnings, none related to axios)
• yarn test: ✅ Passed (all test suites passed, exit code 0)
• yarn build: ✅ Passed (all assets generated successfully, exit code 0)

The axios 0.31.1 release fixes this vulnerability in the 0.x branch. No breaking changes or test failures introduced by this update.

Related: OCPBUGS-85032

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@tonyxrmdavidson: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-85032, which is invalid:

• expected Jira Issue OCPBUGS-85032 to depend on a bug targeting a version in 4.15.0, 4.15.z and in one of the following states: VERIFIED, RELEASE PENDING, CLOSED (ERRATA), CLOSED (CURRENT RELEASE), CLOSED (DONE), CLOSED (DONE-ERRATA), but no dependents were found

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/test e2e-gcp-console

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ci/prow/e2e-gcp-console	9385c7a	link	true	/test e2e-gcp-console

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