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No Charset in Content-Type Header in express

GHSA-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2 · CVE-2014-6393

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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.

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