High severity · published May 8, 2026
CVE-2026-41683
HTTP response splitting and DoS in i18next-http-middleware via unsanitised Content-Language header
8.6
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
I1
i18next-http-middleware · i18next
< 3.9.3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41683
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-41683
github.com
https://github.com/i18next/i18next-http-middleware/security/advisories/GHSA-c3h8-g69v-pjrg
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