HIGHCVE-2026-41683Published Modified CNA GitHub_M
CVE-2026-41683: HTTP response splitting and DoS in i18next-http-middleware via unsanitised Content-Language header
i18next-http-middleware is a middleware to be used with Node.js web frameworks like express or Fastify and also for Deno. Prior to version 3.9.3, i18next-http-middleware wrote user-controlled language values into the Content-Language response header after passing them through utils.escape(), which is an HTML-entity encoder that does not strip carriage return, line feed, or other control characters. When the application used an older i18next (< 19.5.0) that still exercised the backward-compatibility fallback at LanguageDetector.js:100 or otherwise produced a raw detected value, CRLF sequences in the attacker-controlled lng parameter reached res.setHeader('Content-Language', ...) verbatim. This issue has been patched in version 3.9.3.
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 8.6
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- —
- Affected Products
- 1
Affected packages
- i18next / i18next-http-middleware< 3.9.3
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L