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Ubuntu: (CVE-2014-6393): node-express vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 9, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
May 25, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-node-express
Title
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