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axios — deep security report

ShadowCanopy's full breakdown of axios on npm: verdict, AI analysis, dependency chain, network behavior, prebuilds, and obfuscated code.

Dangerous — known malicious
This package matches a known-malicious advisory and is blocked by ShadowCanopy by default.
Scanned 8/15/2026
Known maliciousaxios@1.18.1View on registry ↗latest: 1.18.1

This package matches a known-malicious advisory and is blocked by ShadowCanopy by default across every project. 2 flagged versions.

No malicious behavior detected in axios@1.18.1.

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AI breakdown

Plain-English summary of what this package does and how it behaves.

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Data access

  • None observed in static analysis

Network

  • No network access observed

No static security findings were raised for this package.

Dependency & execution chain

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28 packages5 direct

Package metadata

LicenseMIT

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

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Files in package (170)

LICENSEpackage/LICENSEdist/browser/axios.cjspackage/dist/browser/axios.cjsdist/node/axios.cjspackage/dist/node/axios.cjsindex.d.ctspackage/index.d.ctslib/adapters/adapters.jspackage/lib/adapters/adapters.jsdist/axios.jspackage/dist/axios.jsdist/esm/axios.jspackage/dist/esm/axios.jslib/axios.jspackage/lib/axios.jslib/core/Axios.jspackage/lib/core/Axios.jsdist/axios.min.jspackage/dist/axios.min.jsdist/esm/axios.min.jspackage/dist/esm/axios.min.jslib/core/AxiosError.jspackage/lib/core/AxiosError.jslib/core/AxiosHeaders.jspackage/lib/core/AxiosHeaders.jslib/helpers/AxiosTransformStream.jspackage/lib/helpers/AxiosTransformStream.jslib/helpers/AxiosURLSearchParams.jspackage/lib/helpers/AxiosURLSearchParams.jslib/helpers/bind.jspackage/lib/helpers/bind.jslib/platform/browser/classes/Blob.jspackage/lib/platform/browser/classes/Blob.jslib/core/buildFullPath.jspackage/lib/core/buildFullPath.jslib/helpers/buildURL.jspackage/lib/helpers/buildURL.jslib/helpers/callbackify.jspackage/lib/helpers/callbackify.js

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