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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0603 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2 No Charset in Content-Type Header in express
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T12:17:23.956Z

Reserved: 2014-09-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-6393

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-09T18:29:00.480

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2014-6393

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-03-15T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-6393 - Bugzilla

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