CVE-2014-6393
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.29%No Charset in Content-Type Header in express
Published: 10/23/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/node-expressfrom 0, < 4.16.4-1
- npm/expressfrom 0, < 3.11.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |