FKIE_CVE-2014-6393

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-08-09 18:29 - Updated: 2025-04-20 01:37
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203190Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://nodesecurity.io/advisories/express-no-charset-in-content-type-headerThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203190Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/express-no-charset-in-content-type-headerThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
openjsf express *
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
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