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Status published
Medium
CVE-2016-5325
CRLF injection vulnerability in the ServerResponse#writeHead function in Node.js 0.10.x...
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0f13e56a20f9bde5a67d873a7f9564487160762
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2101
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93483
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-43
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
node.js, linux enterprise
Vulnerable Versions:
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, 4.3.0, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4, 4.4.5, 4.4.6, 4.4.7, 4.5.0, 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, 0.10.42, 0.10.43, 0.10.44, 0.10.45, 0.10.46, 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, 0.12.10, 0.12.11, 0.12.12, 0.12.13, 0.12.14, 0.12.15, 6.0.0, 6.1.0, 6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.4.0, 6.5.0, 6.6.0, 12.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
October 10th, 2016
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.