CVE-2014-6393

medium

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-08-09

Updated: 2021-07-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

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