CVE-2026-41683CWE-113CWE-79

HTTP response splitting and DoS in i18next-http-middleware via unsanitised Content-Language header

High · published May 8, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.6
EPSS
0%
Percentile
32.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.6 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00397 · 32.8th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-113 · Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting'); CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Published
2026-05-08T15:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 MAY 15:27Z
    HTTP response splitting and DoS in i18next-http-middleware via unsanitised Content-Language header
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