CVE-2014-6393

Publication date 9 August 2017

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
node-express 25.10 questing
Fixed 4.16.4-1
25.04 plucky
Fixed 4.16.4-1
24.10 oracular
Fixed 4.16.4-1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 4.16.4-1
23.10 mantic
Fixed 4.16.4-1
23.04 lunar
Fixed 4.16.4-1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 4.16.4-1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 4.16.4-1
21.10 impish
Fixed 4.16.4-1
21.04 hirsute
Fixed 4.16.4-1
20.10 groovy
Fixed 4.16.4-1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 4.16.4-1
19.10 eoan
Fixed 4.16.4-1
19.04 disco
Fixed 4.16.4-1
18.10 cosmic Ignored end of life
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
17.10 artful Ignored end of life
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.10 utopic Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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