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MEDIUM5.0

GHSA-m6fv-jmcg-4jfg

send vulnerable to template injection that can lead to XSS

Quick fix

GHSA-m6fv-jmcg-4jfg — send: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install send@0.19.0

Details

### Impact

passing untrusted user input - even after sanitizing it - to `SendStream.redirect()` may execute untrusted code

### Patches

this issue is patched in send 0.19.0

### Workarounds

users are encouraged to upgrade to the patched version of express, but otherwise can workaround this issue by making sure any untrusted inputs are safe, ideally by validating them against an explicit allowlist

### Details

successful exploitation of this vector requires the following:

1. The attacker MUST control the input to response.redirect() 1. express MUST NOT redirect before the template appears 1. the browser MUST NOT complete redirection before: 1. the user MUST click on the link in the template

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Affected packages

npm/send
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.19.0
Fixnpm install send@0.19.0

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