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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2016-5325: nodejs: reason argument in ServerResponse#writeHead() not properly validated

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2016-5325: nodejs: reason argument in ServerResponse#writeHead() not properly validated

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
10/10/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/18/2018
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the ServerResponse#writeHead function in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.47, 0.12.x before 0.12.16, 4.x before 4.6.0, and 6.x before 6.7.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the reason argument.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-nodejs

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