CVE-2014-6393: No Charset in Content-Type Header

August 9, 2017 (updated August 18, 2017)

Express do not specify a charset field in the content-type header while displaying 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.

References

cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6393

Code Behaviors & Features

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