CVE-2014-6393

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-03-15
CWE:
CWE-79
Bugzilla:
1203190: CVE-2014-6393 express: cross-site scripting via content-type header

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-6393 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 nodejs010-nodejs-express Will not fix

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