CVE-2014-6393

MEDIUM

Express < 3.11 and 4.x < 4.5 - Cross-Site Scripting via Missing Charset in Content-Type Header

Title source: llm

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/express-no-charset-in-content-type-header

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203190

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0114

EPSS Percentile 63.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Products (16)

npm/express 0 - 3.11.0npm

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

... and 6 more

Published Aug 09, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026