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

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Severity

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

References

CVE-2014-6393
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2014-6393
CWE-79
EUVD-EUVD-2018-0603
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-0603
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6393

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