GHSA-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2MediumCVSS 6.1

No Charset in Content-Type Header in express

Published
October 23, 2018
Last Modified
February 1, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • npm/express:< 3.11.0
  • npm/express:>= 4.0.0, < 4.5.0

🔗 References (4)