CVE-2016-2216

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

07/04/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

4.30

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.11:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.12:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.13:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.14:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.11:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.12:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.13:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.14:::::::*

CVE-2016-2216

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools