CVE-2016-5325

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-10-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-113

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.

Affected products

Node.js: 4.0.0, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2.0, 4.2.1 (+91)
SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93483
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2101
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0f13e56a20f9bde5a67d873a7f9564487160762
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2016-security-releases/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-43
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00013.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0002.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93483
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2101
https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/c0f13e56a20f9bde5a67d873a7f9564487160762

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