CVE-2014-6393 (GCVE-0-2014-6393)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-09 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 12:17
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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