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express 4.4.2 vulnerabilities, and the version that fixes all of them

express 4.4.2 has 3 known vulnerabilities; 4.20.0 fixes all of them.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework”

Known vulnerabilities
3
None rated high or critical
Released
Jun 10, 2014
Latest is 5.3.0
Downloads last week
38
Under 1% of express downloads
Express 4 support
Supported
Licence
MIT
OpenSSF Scorecard
8.5/10
visionmedia/express (opens in a new tab)
Pulls in
25 packages
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

4.20.0 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.

  • 4.20.0Upgrade to this

    Fixes all 3 known vulnerabilities. Released Sep 10, 2024.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 4.22.3

    Newest 4.x release. Released Sep 14, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 5.3.0

    Latest release. Released Oct 9, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

Hand the fix to your coding agent

One task with the upgrade, the file to change and why. Paste it into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.

Findings

Every advisory for express 4.4.2

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. WarningCVE-2014-6393 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-gpvr-g6gh-9mc2EPSS: top 34%

    No Charset in Content-Type Header in express

    Fixed in 4.5.0. Published Oct 23, 2018.

  2. WarningCVE-2024-29041 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-rv95-896h-c2vcEPSS: top 45%

    Express.js Open Redirect in malformed URLs

    Fixed in 4.19.2. Published Mar 25, 2024.

  3. LowCVE-2024-43796 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-qw6h-vgh9-j6wxEPSS: top 60%

    express vulnerable to XSS via response.redirect()

    Fixed in 4.20.0. Published Sep 10, 2024.

Who is still on a vulnerable express

7% of last week’s 145.2M express downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly express 4.4.2, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm, support dates from endoflife.date. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS and endoflife.date.