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High · 8.6 CVE-2026-41683 EUVD-2026-28791GHSA-c3h8-g69v-pjrg

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

Published May 8, 2026 · Updated May 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
i18next i18next-http-middleware < 3.9.3 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm i18next-http-middleware < 3.9.3 3.9.3 GHSA-c3h8-g69v-pjrg

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