Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2016-2216 |
CWE-ID | CWE-20 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Node.js Server applications / Web servers |
Vendor | Node.js Foundation |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU32332
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2216
CWE-ID:
CWE-20 - Improper input validation
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate data.
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.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsNode.js: 0.10.0 - 0.10.41
CPE2.3 External linkshttp://blog.safebreach.com/2016/02/09/http-response-splitting-in-node-js-root-cause-analysis/
http://info.safebreach.com/hubfs/Node-js-Response-Splitting.pdf
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177184.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177673.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135711/Node.js-HTTP-Response-Splitting.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83141
http://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2016-security-releases/
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-43
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.