Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting express package, versions <3.11.0>=4.0.0 <4.5.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:express:20140912
  • published12 Sept 2014
  • disclosed12 Sept 2014
  • creditPaweł Hałdrzyński

Introduced: 12 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-6393  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

express is a minimalist web framework.

Affected versions of this package do not enforce the user's browser to set a specific charset in the content-type header while displaying 400 level response messages. This could be used by remote attackers to perform a cross-site scripting attack, by using non-standard encodings like UTF-7.

Details

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Recommendations

Update express to 3.11.0, 4.5.0 or higher.

CVSS Scores

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