ghsa-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2
Vulnerability from github
Published
2018-10-23 17:22
Modified
2021-08-02 22:35
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
No Charset in Content-Type Header in express
Details

Vulnerable versions of express do not specify a charset field in the content-type header while displaying 400 level response messages. The lack of enforcing user's browser to set correct charset, could be leveraged by an attacker to perform a cross-site scripting attack, using non-standard encodings, like UTF-7.

Recommendation

For express 3.x, update express to version 3.11 or later. For express 4.x, update express to version 4.5 or later.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "express"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.11.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "express"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "4.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "4.5.0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2014-6393"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-79"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:37:54Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-08-09T18:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Vulnerable versions of express do not specify a charset field in the content-type header while displaying 400 level response messages. The lack of enforcing user\u0027s browser to set correct charset, could be leveraged by an attacker to perform a cross-site scripting attack, using non-standard encodings, like UTF-7.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nFor express 3.x, update express to version 3.11 or later.\nFor express 4.x, update express to version 4.5 or later. ",
  "id": "GHSA-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2",
  "modified": "2021-08-02T22:35:12Z",
  "published": "2018-10-23T17:22:54Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6393"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203190"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/8"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "No Charset in Content-Type Header in express"
}


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