Axios carries two independent critical SSRF vulnerabilities this period: CVE-2026-40175 (CVSS 9.1), a header injection chain enabling cloud metadata exfiltration, and CVE-2025-62718 (CVSS 9.1), a NO_PROXY hostname normalization bypass with similar metadata exposure impact. Both vulnerabilities target cloud instance metadata endpoints (AWS, GCP, Azure) and can result in IAM credential theft and cloud account compromise. Organizations should audit all Node.js application and Lambda dependencies for Axios, enforce IMDSv2 on AWS workloads as an immediate compensating control, block egress to 169.254.169.254 at the network layer, and upgrade to patched Axios versions once confirmed via GHSA-fvcv-3m26-pcqx and GHSA-3p68-rc4w-qgx5.