CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-6393
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
The Express web framework before 3.11 and 4.x before 4.5 for Node.js does not provide a charset field in HTTP Content-Type headers in 400 level responses, which might allow remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via characters in a non-standard encoding.
Affected configurations
• openjsf express (<= 3.10.5)
• openjsf express 4.0.0
• openjsf express 4.1.0
• openjsf express 4.1.1
• openjsf express 4.1.2
• openjsf express 4.2.0
• openjsf express 4.3.0
• openjsf express 4.3.1
• openjsf express 4.3.2
• openjsf express 4.4.0
• openjsf express 4.4.1
• openjsf express 4.4.2
• openjsf express 4.4.3
• openjsf express 4.4.4
• openjsf express 4.4.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203190 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/express-no-charset-in-content-type-header Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203190 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/express-no-charset-in-content-type-header Third Party Advisory