CVE-2026-44217

sse-channel: SSE Injection via unsanitized event fields

Published May 12, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 6.6 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
sse-channel is an SSE-implementation which can be used to any node.js http request/response stream. Prior to 4.0.1, implementations that allow user-provided values to be passed to event, retry or id fields are susceptible to event spoofing, where an attacker could inject arbitrary messages into the stream. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.1.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-84hm-wfh8-c5pg sse-channel: SSE Injection via unsanitized event fields
History
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Description sse-channel is an SSE-implementation which can be used to any node.js http request/response stream. Prior to 4.0.1, implementations that allow user-provided values to be passed to event, retry or id fields are susceptible to event spoofing, where an attacker could inject arbitrary messages into the stream. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.0.1.
Title sse-channel: SSE Injection via unsanitized event fields
Weaknesses CWE-93
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
May 14, 2026, 7:52 PM
Reserved
May 5, 2026, 3:13 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
May 12, 2026, 8:16 PM
Modified
Oct 26, 2026, 6:10 PM