Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-5325

Title: Nodejs Node.Js

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-5325.

CWE Category CWE-113

Published Date Oct 10, 2016

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.99%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-5325: CRLF injection vulnerability in the ServerResponse#writeHead function in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.47, 0.12.x before 0.12.16, 4.x before 4.6.0, and 6.x before 6.7.0 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the reason argument.

Impacted Vendors

nodejs 1

joyent 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93483 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2101 https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0f13e56a20f9bde5a67d873a7f9564487160762 https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-43 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93483 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2101 https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0f13e56a20f9bde5a67d873a7f9564487160762 https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-43

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

CVE-2016-5325 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 10, 2016 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.