Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-6393

Title: Openjsf Express Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-6393.

CWE Category CWE-79

Published Date Aug 09, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.29%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-6393: 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.

Impacted Vendors

openjsf 1

checkpoint 1

Reference Links

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

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

CHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns