CVE-2016-2216 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2016-2216

The HTTP header parsing code in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.42,...

Vulnerability Description

The HTTP header parsing code in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.42, 0.11.6 through 0.11.16, 0.12.x before 0.12.10, 4.x before 4.3.0, and 5.x before 5.6.0 allows remote attackers to bypass an HTTP response-splitting protection mechanism via UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters in the HTTP header, as demonstrated by %c4%8d%c4%8a.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

node.js, fedora
Vulnerable Versions:
0.10.0, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.10.3, 0.10.4, 0.10.5, 0.10.6, 0.10.7, 0.10.8, 0.10.9, 0.10.10, 0.10.11, 0.10.12, 0.10.13, 0.10.14, 0.10.15, 0.10.16, 0.10.16-isaacs-manual, 0.10.17, 0.10.18, 0.10.19, 0.10.20, 0.10.21, 0.10.22, 0.10.23, 0.10.24, 0.10.25, 0.10.26, 0.10.27, 0.10.28, 0.10.29, 0.10.30, 0.10.31, 0.10.32, 0.10.33, 0.10.34, 0.10.35, 0.10.36, 0.10.37, 0.10.38, 0.10.39, 0.10.40, 0.10.41, 0.11.6, 0.11.7, 0.11.8, 0.11.9, 0.11.10, 0.11.11, 0.11.12, 0.11.13, 0.11.14, 0.11.15, 0.11.16, 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.12.2, 0.12.3, 0.12.4, 0.12.5, 0.12.6, 0.12.7, 0.12.8, 0.12.9, 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2.5, 4.2.6, 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.5.0, 22, 23

Timeline

Official Publish: April 7th, 2016
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.