PT-2017-5975 · Node.Js · Express

Published 2017-08-09 · Updated 2021-07-30 · CVE-2014-6393

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Express versions 3.x before 3.11 Express versions 4.x before 4.5

Description: The issue arises from the lack of a charset field in HTTP Content-Type headers in 400 level responses, potentially allowing remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via characters in non-standard encodings, such as UTF-7.

Recommendations: For Express versions 3.x before 3.11, update Express to version 3.11 or later. For Express versions 4.x before 4.5, update Express to version 4.5 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-6393

GHSA-GPVR-G6GH-9MC2

Affected Products

Express

References · 13

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-6393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-6393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6393 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6393 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6393 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/18355 · Telegram Post
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/express-no-charset-in-content-type-header · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/8 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203190 · Note