Vulnerability CVE-2014-6393


Published: 2017-08-09   Modified: 2017-08-10

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Expressjs -> Express 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203190
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/express-no-charset-in-content-type-header

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