CVE-2016-2216 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2016-2216?

CVE-2016-2216 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 7 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2216?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Nodejs Node.js.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2216?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-2216 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2216 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2216, GHSA-77qx-hwx7-xv2g, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2216.