CVE-2016-1899

LOW3.7EPSS 0.65%

cgit - security update

Published: 1/20/2016Modified: 3/9/2026

Also known as:DSA-3545-1DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1899

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the ui-blob handler in CGit before 0.12 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks or cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via CRLF sequences in the mimetype parameter, as demonstrated by a request to blob/cgit.c.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/cgitfrom 0, < 0.11.2.git2.3.2-1.1
Debian/cgitfrom 0, < 0.10.2.git2.0.1-3+deb8u1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	LOW3.7	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1899