CVE-2016-5325

Publication date 10 October 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nodejs	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 4.2.6~dfsg-1ubuntu4.2
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1.2
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.1 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Changed
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.1 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVE-2016-5325

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Status

Severity score breakdown

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